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    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
    tags: design, exupery, perfection
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    Haruki Murakami
    “For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
    tags: time, waiting
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  • #5
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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  • #6
    Jeannette Walls
    “Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”
    ― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
    tags: angels, beasts, mankind, perfection
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  • #7
    Lance Armstrong
    “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
    ― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts
    tags: cancer, failure, inspiration, inspirational, pain, quitting
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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  • #9
    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    ― Haruki Marukami
    tags: expectation
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  • #10
    Nick Hornby
    “Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.”
    ― Nick Hornby, Songbook
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    Nick Hornby
    “Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.”
    ― Nick Hornby
    tags: humour, love, romance
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    Nick Hornby
    “I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.”
    ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
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  • #13
    Justin Halpern
    “On Being Afraid to Use the Elementary School Bathrooms to Defecate

    “Son, you're complaining to the wrong man. I can shit anywhere, at any time. It's one of my finer qualities. Some might say my finest.”
    ― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says
    tags: everyday-life
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  • #14
    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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    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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  • #16
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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  • #17
    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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  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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  • #19
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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  • #20
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
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  • #21
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
    tags: future, life, past
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  • #22
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: life
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  • #23
    Tommy Newberry
    “If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.”
    ― Tommy Newberry, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices, Change Your Life
    tags: extraordinary, life, life-lessons, ordinary, self-development, success
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  • #24
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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  • #25
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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  • #26
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
    tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life
    3132 likes

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  • #27
    Noam Chomsky
    “(...) rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
    tags: rationality
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  • #28
    Anne Rice
    “The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
    tags: despair
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  • #29
    Paulo Coelho
    “Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
    tags: depression
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  • #30
    Kate Moss
    “Never complain. Never explain.”
    ― Kate Moss
    31 likes



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