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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people
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    Maya Angelou
    “Out of the huts of history's shame
    I rise
    Up from a past that's rooted in pain
    I rise
    I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
    Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
    Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
    I rise
    Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
    I rise
    Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
    I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
    I rise
    I rise
    I rise.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: poem
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    Maya Angelou
    “Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
    I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
    But when I start to tell them,
    They think I'm telling lies.
    I say,
    It's in the reach of my arms
    The span of my hips,
    The stride of my step,
    The curl of my lips.
    I'm a woman
    Phenomenally.
    Phenomenal woman,
    That's me.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
    tags: phenomenal-woman
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    Maya Angelou
    “If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: determination, fate
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Stephen King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: wish
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: host, ian, jamie, jared, melanie, uncle-jeb, wanda
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: life
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I think I deserve something beautiful.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: eat-pray-love, elizabeth-gilbert, inspiration
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: loneliness
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: excellence, success
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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  • #29
    Virginia Woolf
    “Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935
    369 likes



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