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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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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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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    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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    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
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people
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    Maya Angelou
    “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination
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    Maya Angelou
    “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: ambition, inspirational, wisdom
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    “Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”
    ― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
    tags: inspiration, life
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    Garth Stein
    “There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”
    ― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
    tags: honor, inspiration
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    Randy Pausch
    “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: adversity, hard-times, inspiration
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
    tags: happiness, sadness
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    W.P. Kinsella
    “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
    ― W.P. Kinsella
    tags: happiness, success
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
    tags: happiness, thinking, wisedom
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    “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
    ― George Washington Burnap, The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures
    tags: happiness, inspirational, misattributed-to-chalmers, misattributed-to-joseph-addison, misattributed-to-kant, misattributed-tom-bodett, widely-misattributed
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    Douglas Adams
    “I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: happiness, rightness
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    “How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
    ― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont
    tags: misattributed-to-a-a-milne
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    A.A. Milne
    “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: dreams, together
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    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie
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