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#1

“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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#2

“A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet.”
― Bob Dylan

tags: bob-dylan-quote, poet

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#3

“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”
― Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational

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#4

“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
― Bob Dylan

tags: inspirational, lyrics, music, self-discovery, songs

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#5

“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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#6

“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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#7

“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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#9

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues

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#10

“Incredible shame is associated with mental illness. People will confide the most intimate details of their love life before they'll mention a relative who had a serious mental breakdown. But the brain is just another organ. It's just a machine, and a machine can go wrong.”
― Candace Pert

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#11

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#12

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#13

“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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#14

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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#15

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou

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#16

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#17

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#18

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#19

“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”
― Cassandra Clare

tags: simon

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#20

“I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.”
― Betsy Lerner, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories

tags: humor, mental-illness

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#21

“There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were”
― Nina Simone

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#22

“You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.”
― Nina Simone

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#23

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination

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#24

“When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.”
― Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

tags: bipolar-disorder, madness, manic-depression, mental-illness, reality

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#25

“It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life for me
And I'm feeling good”
― Leslie Bricusse, The Leslie Bricusse Songbook: Softcover

tags: euphoria, new-day

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#26

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

tags: humor, insanity

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#27

“Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. ”
― Fran Lebowitz

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#28

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: creative-process, creativity, inspirational, mental-illness, outsider, self-discovery

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#29

“love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Cheaters

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#30

“The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides ”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

tags: suicide

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#31

“Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

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