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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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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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    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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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source
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  • #8
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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  • #9
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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  • #10
    Jimi Hendrix
    “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos
    tags: death, life
    17161 likes

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  • #11
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
    tags: life, love
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  • #12
    George Harrison
    “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
    ― George Harrison
    tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll
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    Bob Marley
    “Who are you to judge the life I live?
    I know I'm not perfect
    -and I don't live to be-
    but before you start pointing fingers...
    make sure you hands are clean!”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: judge, life, live, perfection
    20313 likes

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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, respect
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  • #15
    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
    13371 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
    18021 likes

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  • #17
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
    ― John Greenleaf Whittier
    tags: life, words
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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  • #19
    Woody Allen
    “I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: humor, life, sex
    6557 likes

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  • #20
    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    Alan Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    ― Alan Moore
    tags: life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    tags: death, humor, life
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  • #23
    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    ― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
    tags: life, pain
    6210 likes

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  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: illusions, life
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: expectation, hope, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: cats, humor, life
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
    9005 likes

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  • #28
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
    20120 likes

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  • #29
    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: books, life
    3686 likes

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  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
    7357 likes



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