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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Where there is love there is life.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
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    Shel Silverstein
    “How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
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    Cassandra Clare
    “People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: bad, good, life
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
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    Paul Simon
    “I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
    ― Simon and Garfunkel
    tags: happiness, life
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    Mae West
    “I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mae West
    “Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.”
    ― Mae West
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    Mae West
    “Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: complacency, morality, surprise
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    Mae West
    “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!”
    ― Mae West
    tags: appreciation, decadence, excess, indulgence, innuendo, over-indulgence, risque
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    Mae West
    “A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: confidence, relationships, women
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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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    Jarod Kintz
    “I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, I Want
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    Harvey Fierstein
    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
    ― Harvey Fierstein
    tags: be-yourself, identity, individuality, inspirational, life, self-determination, self-esteem, self-expression
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    John Green
    “I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: unrequited-love
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    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
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    Kristan Higgins
    “I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart.”
    ― Kristan Higgins, All I Ever Wanted
    tags: broken-heart, crush, unrequited-love
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  • #19
    “Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”
    ― Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly
    tags: kill-me-softly, love, real-love, sarah-cross, unrequited-love
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    Abraham Cowley
    “A mighty pain to love it is,
    And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
    But of all pains, the greatest pain
    It is to love, but love in vain.”
    ― Abraham Cowley, The Poems of Abraham Cowley
    tags: love
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    Donald Miller
    “I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.”
    ― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
    tags: admiration, love, unrequited-love
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: creativity
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    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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    J.K. Rowling
    “There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
    ― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: awesome, friendship, inspirational
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    Emilie Autumn
    “It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
    ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
    tags: fight, friends, friendship, kill, loyalty, strength
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    O. Henry
    “No friendship is an accident. ”
    ― O. Henry, Heart of the West
    tags: friendship
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: friendship
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    Maya Angelou
    “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: friendship
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    Jarod Kintz
    “I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
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