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#1

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: humor

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#2

“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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#3

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#4

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

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#5

“Is there no way out of the mind?”
― Sylvia Plath

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#7

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

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#8

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

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#9

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#10

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: trust, truth

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#11

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: misattributed-ernest-hemingway, misattributed-leonard-cohen

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#12

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

tags: be-yourself, empowerment, girls, identity, individuality, self-determination, women

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#13

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

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#14

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

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#15

“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

tags: humor, thinking

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#16

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

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#17

“I learned to love the fool in me. The one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes & loses often, lacks self-control, loves & hates, hurts & gets hurt, promises & breaks promises, laughs & cries.”
― Theodore Isaac Rubin

tags: inspirational, life

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#18

“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#19

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
― George Carlin

tags: grass, hero, heroism, individualism, individuality, nature

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#20

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

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#21

“Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: insightful

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#22

“... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.”
― Brad Thor, The Apostle

tags: kill, smile

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#23

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY - MAN

tags: absence, existence, fear, hurt, love, risk

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#24

“Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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#25

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

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#26

“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: today

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