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    Marilyn Monroe
    “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, love
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    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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    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
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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
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, living, philosophy, women
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    Michael Cunningham
    “I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
    tags: gender
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    John Grisham
    “In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
    ― John Grisham
    tags: inspirational-life
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    John Grisham
    “You live your life today,
    Not tomorrow,
    and certainly not yesterday.”
    ― John Grisham
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    Astrid Lindgren
    “Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
    ― Astrid Lindgren
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    J.G. Ballard
    “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
    ― J.G. Ballard
    tags: imagination, immortality
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    Bill Nye
    “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
    ― Bill Nye
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    Mae West
    “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
    ― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
    tags: ambition, disobedience, empowerment, girls, goodness, naughty, promiscuity, risque, self-determination, wickedness, women
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
    7583 likes

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    Susan Sontag
    “Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: attention, eagerness
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
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    Horace Mann
    “If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”
    ― Horace Mann
    tags: inspriational-quotes
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    Rachel Ballon
    “Most good writers are good psychologists.”
    ― Rachel Ballon, Blueprint for Screenwriting
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    Gloria Naylor
    “The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
    ― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills
    tags: love
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  • #20
    My course is set for an uncharted sea.
    “My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
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    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom
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    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    ― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
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    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    ― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story
    tags: acceptance, life, love, worth
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  • #24
    Mother Teresa
    “Peace begins with a smile..”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
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  • #27
    “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
    ― Elizabeth Appell
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • #29
    Johnny Cash
    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
    ― Johnny Cash
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    Rob Reiner
    “Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
    ― Rob Reiner
    3753 likes



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