2026 Reading Challenge

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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Tami Hoag
    “We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
    ― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse
    tags: inspirational
    2081 likes

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    Vicki Baum
    “There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
    ― Vicki Baum, Ballerina
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    Lucretius
    “All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.”
    ― Titus Lucretius Carus, On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura
    tags: religion
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    David Sedaris
    “I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”
    ― David Sedaris, Naked
    tags: changing-others
    990 likes

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  • #6
    Erica Jong
    “Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: life-lessons
    382 likes

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  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: conscience, humor, memory
    1977 likes

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  • #8
    George Meredith
    “A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
    ― George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways
    tags: women
    1580 likes

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  • #9
    Dale Carnegie
    “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life
    6278 likes

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  • #10
    Sylvia Plath
    “Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: dreams, infatuation, love, sensation, thoughts
    3701 likes

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  • #11
    John Steinbeck
    “For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
    tags: narcissism
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  • #12
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Lies don't end relationships the truth does.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: brutal-honesty, cheaters, conartists, denial, divorce, emotional-abuse, games, gaslighting, honesty, justice, liars, lies, manipulators, mind-games, narcissism, real-truth, relationships, secrets, truth
    122 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Albert Einstein
    “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
    148402 likes

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  • #15
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109285 likes

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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
    89101 likes

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  • #18
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    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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  • #21
    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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  • #22
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
    42028 likes



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