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#1

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#3

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#4

“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

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#5

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

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#6

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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#7

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

tags: misattributed-to-einstein

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#8

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

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#9

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

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#10

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time

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#11

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

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#12

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

tags: beauty, life

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#13

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

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#14

“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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#15

“You can be the ripest, juciest peach, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.”
― Dita Von Teese

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#16

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth

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#17

“I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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#18

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#19

“Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: pain, storm, summer

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#20

“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

tags: adam, ignite-me

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#21

“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequences.”
― V. E. Schwab, Vicious

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#22

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

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#23

“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

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#24

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: philosophy, wisdom

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