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#1

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

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#2

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#3

“Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and bravest acts are done for love.”
― Rick Riordan

tags: aphrodite, piper-mclean, the-lost-hero

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#4

“My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

tags: bravery, love

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#5

“You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Natural Born Charmer

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#6

“Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

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#7

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

tags: nico

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#8

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: inspirational, life, meaning

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#9

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

tags: love

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#10

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: deadlines, humor, procrastinate

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#11

“Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?"
"Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?"
"Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

tags: humor, true-love

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#12

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

tags: machines, people

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#13

“Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

tags: death, greek, humor, mythology, percy-jackson, sorry

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#14

“It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

tags: enjoy, humor, joke, prank

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#15

“Humans see what they want to see.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: humanity, humans, mankind, perception, self-delusion, willful-ignorance

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#16

“The real world is where the monsters are.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: monsters, reality, world

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#17

“Does truth have a moral?”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

tags: moral, truth

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#18

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

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#19

“Only bad books have good endings.
If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

tags: books

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#20

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#21

“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: forgiveness

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#22

“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: independent-thought, opinions

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#23

“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”
― Paul Theroux

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#24

“If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#25

“They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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#26

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

tags: inspirational, love

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#27

“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”
― Oliver Sacks

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#28

“I'd rather be alone than unhappy”
― Whitney Houston

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#29

“And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan

tags: bum-rag, fire, humor, mistakes, ship

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#30

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
― Edith Sitwell

tags: life

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