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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “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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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    George Harrison
    “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
    ― George Harrison
    tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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    Chinua Achebe
    “When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”
    ― Chinua Achebe
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    James Frey
    “There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”
    ― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
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    James Frey
    “The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.
    I broke something, Old Man.
    How badly is it broken?
    It's in a million little pieces.
    I'm afraid I can't help you.
    Why?
    There's nothing you can do.
    Why?
    It can't be fixed.
    Why?
    It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.”
    ― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
    tags: broken, life, million, pieces, sad
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    Victor Hugo
    “The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
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    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    ― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
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    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    ― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
    tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne
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    “If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
    ― Carter Crocker
    tags: confidence
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  • #13
    “How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
    ― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont
    tags: misattributed-to-a-a-milne
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    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    A.A. Milne
    “[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."

    (The Record Lie)”
    ― A.A. Milne, If I May
    tags: independent-thought, quotations, quotes
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    A.A. Milne
    “Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    A.A. Milne
    “To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: illiteracy
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    A.A. Milne
    “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: a-a-milne, pooh
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    A.A. Milne
    “But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: comfort, friends, friendship, humor, math, piglet, reassurance
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    A.A. Milne
    “I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
    "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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  • #23
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    Victor Hugo
    “What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
    ― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables
    tags: love, soul, stars
    4609 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: love
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    Victor Hugo
    “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: ideas
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  • #30
    Victor Hugo
    “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: education
    881 likes



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