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#1

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

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#2

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed

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#4

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: fighting, hurt, inner-peace, peace, permission, strength, trial

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#5

“Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

tags: dignity, honor, strength

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#6

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: strength

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#7

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational

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#8

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#9

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone

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#10

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

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#11

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: seuss

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#12

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

tags: humor, work

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#13

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#14

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#15

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

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#16

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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#17

“The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.”
― Arthur Miller

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#18

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim MORRISON

tags: freedom, individuality, inspirational, mask, personality, revolution, truth

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#19

“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.”
― Audre Lorde

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#20

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: protection, silence, speech

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#21

“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house”
― Audre Lorde

tags: feminism, inequality, power

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#22

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
― audre lorde

tags: preservation, self-care

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#23

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
― audre lorde

tags: equal-rights, equality, feminism, freedom, liberty, women

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#24

“Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: emotion, feelings, knowledge

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#25

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

tags: inspirational

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#26

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir

tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness

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#27

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

tags: nature

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#28

“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
― John Muir

tags: nature

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#29

“Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics, and others with a shaky hold on reality.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

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#30

“Among houseplants, the most efficient air purifiers are heavy transpirers, or species that cycle a lot of water from roots to leaves, such as palms, rubber plants, and corn plants (Dracaena). However, any green plant deserves some credit for making indoor air better for people to breathe.”
― Barbara Pleasant, The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual: Essential Gardening Know-how for Keeping (Not Killing!) More Than 160 Indoor Plants

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