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  • #1
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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  • #3
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #5
    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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  • #6
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60259 likes

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  • #8
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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  • #9
    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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  • #10
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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  • #11
    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
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  • #12
    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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  • #13
    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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    John Green
    “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: attraction, beauty, popularity
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  • #15
    John Green
    “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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  • #16
    Jojo Moyes
    “You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
    ― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
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  • #17
    John Green
    “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: future, labyrinth, life, past, present
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  • #18
    “There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.”
    ― William Bliss
    tags: carman, gypsy, october, william-bills
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  • #19
    Glennon Doyle
    “This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.”
    ― Glennon Doyle, Untamed
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  • #20
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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  • #21
    Kalyn Nicholson
    “This time the fight for our lives was real.”
    ― Kalyn Nicholson, Catcher
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  • #22
    Orion Carloto
    “You are a dream and i don't want to wake up.”
    ― Orion Carloto, Flux
    tags: dream
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  • #23
    Orion Carloto
    “you are your home”
    ― Orion Carloto, Flux
    tags: home
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  • #24
    Orion Carloto
    “Sometimes things must break
    in order for the wishes
    we've longed for the most
    to come true.”
    ― Orion Carloto, Flux
    tags: dreams
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  • #25
    Orion Carloto
    “I was too busy
    admiring the petals
    that I forgot
    about the thorns.”
    ― Orion Carloto, Flux
    tags: petals, thorns
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  • #26
    André Aciman
    “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
    ― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: aciman, call-me-by-your-name, italy, love
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  • #27
    Mahmoud Darwish
    “A University degree, four books, and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me 'good morning' and I read it as 'I love you'.”
    ― Mahmoud Darwish
    tags: love
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  • #28
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93546 likes



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