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    Sarah Pekkanen
    “Sometimes following the path that looked the safest was what led to the most hurt...”
    ― Sarah Pekkanen, Skipping a Beat
    tags: inspirational, timidity
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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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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #6
    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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #8
    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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  • #9
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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  • #10
    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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  • #11
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #14
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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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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  • #16
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
    tags: life
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    Dodie Smith
    “There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: love
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Why is love intensified by absence?”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Time is nothing.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
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  • #21
    Chris Crutcher
    “Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.”
    ― Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
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  • #22
    Chris Crutcher
    “I think most of us tell ourselves we don't want what we think we can't have just to make life bearable.”
    ― Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
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    Chris Crutcher
    “ The longer I wait the more reasons I can think of why it means something other than what I thought it meant when I first read it. ”
    ― Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
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    Chris Crutcher
    “ No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see. ”
    ― Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
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    Chris Crutcher
    “ And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself. ”
    ― Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
    tags: honesty-love
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    Tim Farrington
    “We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love.”
    ― Tim Farrington, The Monk Downstairs
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    Tim Farrington
    “ There didn't seem to be that much to say. If you loved Phoebe now, it was going to hurt you to see her. Like facing cold water, you just jumped in and swam anyway. ”
    ― Tim Farrington, The Monk Downstairs
    tags: facing-the-truth
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    Tim Farrington
    “ I don't care if you're spoiled, for God's sake! I'm spoiled. We're all spoiled, life does that. It's what you do with yourself after you realize you've been spoiled that matters. It's the life you make in the ruins. ”
    ― Tim Farrington, The Monk Upstairs
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    Tim Farrington
    “ Put your other goddamned sock on", she said.
    Instead, he took the first sock off. They stared at each other. It was so spectacularly absurd. She could feel the corner of her mouth twitching; she was close to laughing. Rory had used to do the same sort of thing; she'd spent a decade of her life being mollified by simple existential charm. ”
    ― Tim Farrington, The Monk Downstairs
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    Tim Farrington
    “ For the rest of the afternoon, Rebecca wandered around the house tidying up halfheartedly, feeling bereft and disoriented, trying to balance impassive mass of all the ordinary things of her life with her sense that everything had changed. Inevitably, the weightless moments with Mike began to seem unreal. All her furniture said that love was a bubble and a fluke. ”
    ― Tim Farrington, The Monk Downstairs
    tags: love
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