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  • #1
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    Vicki Baum
    “There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
    Vicki Baum, Ballerina

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    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

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

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    George Meredith
    “A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
    George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways

  • #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

  • #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

  • #11
    John Steinbeck
    “For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

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

  • #17
    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

  • #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

  • #19
    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

  • #20
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #21
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #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



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