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#1

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting

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#2

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

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#3

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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#4

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth

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#5

“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
― Simon and Garfunkel

tags: happiness, life

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#6

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

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

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#7

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: augustus-waters, hazel, heartbreak, privilege

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#8

“May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.

I smiled. "Sure."

"Tomorrow?" he asked.

"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager.

"Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow." I rolled my eyes. "I'm serious," he said.

"You don't even know me," I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. "How about I call you when I finish this?"

"But you don't even have my phone number," he said.

"I strongly suspect you wrote it in this book."

He broke out into that goofy smile. "And you say we don't know each other.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#9

“Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#10

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#11

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: change, grief, loss, revelation

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#12

“You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong."

He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin.

"My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.

His dark eyes lifting to mine, he adds, "But I resist it."

"Why..." I swallow hard. "Why is that your first instinct?"

"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just want to see it again. Want to see you awake.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: chivalry

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#13

“I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though."
"That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something."
I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear.
"Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you."
I laugh a little. "Then you should know better."
"Fine," he says. "Then I love you.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: beatrice, divergent, humor, love, tobias

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#14

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

tags: anonymity, blending-in

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#15

“Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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#16

“Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

tags: inspirational, philosophy

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#17

“I'm afraid of time. I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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#19

“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”
― Jim Carrey

tags: 2014, 7-7, 77, acceptance, actor, actors, address, allow, be-you, be-yourself, commencement-address, commencement-speech, famous-people, glory, graduate, graduation, hide, hiding, inspirational, inspiring, jim-carey, jim-carrey, light, maharishi, maharishi-university, mum, pleaser, pleasing, pleasing-others, risk, shine, shine-bright, shine-on, shine-your-light

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#20

“You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
― Michelle Obama

tags: decision-making, decisions, fear

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#21

“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.

The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

If this sounds too mystical, refer again to the body. Every significant vital sign- body temperature, heart rate, oxygen consumption, hormone level, brain activity, and so on- alters the moment you decide to do anything… decisions are signals telling your body, mind, and environment to move in a certain direction.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

tags: decision-making, mind-body-connection, spirituality

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#22

“Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.”
― David Gemmell, Fall of Kings

tags: decision-making, instinct, self-reliance, trust

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#23

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

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#24

“It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way”
― Jeremy Aldana

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#25

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: aim, aim-high, deep, effort, far-reaching, goal, goals, journey, limits, narrow, range, reach, reach-out, reaching-out, stars, trip, universe, wide

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#26

“We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”
― Gloria Gaither

tags: inspirational, journey, life, purpose

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#27

“Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

tags: inspirational, journey

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#28

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: attributed-no-source

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#29

“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling

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#30

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased

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#31

“Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love. ”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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