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    Dr. Seuss
    “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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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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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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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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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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78476 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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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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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Judy Garland
    “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
    ― Judy Garland
    tags: be-yourself, greatness, individuality
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    “Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.”
    ― Lady Gaga
    tags: be-yourself, individuality, self-determination
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    Frank Zappa
    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: be-yourself, life, self-determination
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    Jim Morrison
    “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: acceptance, be-yourself, frienship
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  • #17
    “Just be yourself, there is no one better.”
    ― Taylor Swift
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    Lao Tzu
    “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect
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    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
    ― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
    tags: be-yourself, empowerment, girls, identity, individuality, self-determination, women
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    Philip Pullman
    “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
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    Toba Beta
    “Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: be-yourself, man-for-himself
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    Irving Wallace
    “To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
    ― Irving Wallace
    tags: be-yourself
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    Erin Hunter
    “Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory???
    Graystripe:...Drowning?
    Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory?
    Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?”
    ― Erin Hunter
    tags: fire-and-ice, graystripe, sarcasm, silverstream, warriors
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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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  • #26
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
    tags: confidence
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  • #29
    “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
    ― Olin Miller
    tags: confidence, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, others, think, worry
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  • #30
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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  • #31
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: friends
    2616 likes



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