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    Michel Foucault
    “Where there is power, there is resistance.”
    ― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
    tags: activism, leftism, power, resistance
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    Michel Foucault
    “I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Mya Robarts
    “ You usually can’t recall all the people you’ve shared laughs with. But you rarely forget the people you’ve shared your tears with. ”
    ― Mya Robarts, The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
    tags: friendship, friendship-quotes, laughs, share-quotes, shared-experiences, shared-memories, tears
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Enjoy it. Because it's happening.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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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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  • #12
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mae West
    “I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: inspirational, religious
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    Mae West
    “Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
    ― Mae West
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    Jasleen Kaur Gumber
    “Not all doors open in the same direction and with the same effort!”
    ― Jasleen Kaur Gumber
    tags: abstract, different, different-perspective, door, effort, life, philosophy
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Richard Bach
    “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
    tags: inspirational
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    Richard Bach
    “Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions
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    Richard Bach
    “Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
    tags: believe, richard-bach
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    Richard Bach
    “Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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    Richard Bach
    “You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
    tags: dreams, inspirational
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    Richard Bach
    “Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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    Richard Bach
    “Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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    Richard Bach
    “The image is a dream. The beauty is real.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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  • #30
    “New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light, and new beginnings.”
    ― April Mae Monterrosa
    tags: motivational, new-beginnings, new-day, new-goals, new-love, new-month, new-start
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  • #31
    Jennifer Castle
    “It was like how people find other people to be in love with, all random and accidental and lucky.”
    ― Jennifer Castle, The Beginning of After
    tags: family, home, love
    34 likes



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