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#1

“If you don't blow your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon. ”
― Kenneth H. Blanchard

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#2

“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

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#3

“There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.”
― Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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#4

“My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”
― Bruno Schulz

982 likes

#5

“There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all over it .”
― Tiffany King, Meant to Be

tags: bibliophile, book-lovers

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#6

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

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#7

“It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

tags: romance

72 likes

#8

“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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#9

“When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries

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#10

“Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries

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#11

“Money is one thing which rarely unites and mostly divides people.”
― Sudha Murty, The Old Man And His God: Discovering the Spirit of India

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#12

“See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

tags: life

263 likes

#13

“The mind is what the mind is fed.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

114 likes

#14

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

81872 likes

#15

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

76621 likes

#16

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

429 likes

#17

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed

34805 likes

#18

“The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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#19

“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

tags: sputnik-sweetheart

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#20

“The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

tags: education, fight, oppression, revolution, voice

114 likes

#21

“There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that woman’s despair.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

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#22

“I cannot control even the dreams that I have made.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

24 likes

#23

“Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

tags: betrayal, marriage

22 likes

#24

“Chance encounters are what keep us going.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

1088 likes

#25

“I like myself better when I'm with you.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

tags: morrie, tuesdays, with

1361 likes

#26

“Love wins, love always wins.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

tags: love

746 likes

#27

“I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

tags: love, self

456 likes

#28

“God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

2098 likes

#29

“The smaller the house, the more a family is forced to love one another.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

280 likes

#30

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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