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#1

“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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#2

“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: agreement, attraction, beautiful, beauty, chemistry, chemistry-out-of-control-love, commitment, compatibility, competition, conflict, contradiction, control, dedication, differences, differentiation, disagreement, enemy, fatal-attraction, forgiveness, friendship, illogical, incompatibility, logical, love, necessity, opposites, opposites-attract, out-of-control, out-of-control-love, paradox, partnership, peace, relationship, rival, romance, romantic, sense, senseless, together, unconditional-love, unity

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#3

“Have you ever truly, keenly felt like you don't know who you are? Do you ever do something and think, Who is at the controls? Like some mad pilot has locked you out of the cockpit? I definitely do. I feel a kind of vertigo that makes me shake afterwards. I guess we all feel it when making a difficult-seeming choice, and sometimes you seriously don't know what you want because you don't know who you're supposed to be, or who you want to be. Physics, my first and second families, my philosophy degree, had all failed to help me answer that question. The former has led me to wonder whether I am one of an infinite number of Alices in multiple universes. A quantum fuck-up, which is someone who fucks up in every one of those universes but in different ways.”
― Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy

tags: decision-making, finding-yourself, identity, multiverse, olivia-sudjic, out-of-control, sympathy, uncertainty

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#4

“Half the time he felt entirely out of control. Half the time he threw up walls out of fear. And half the time he opted out of life before anyone had the chance to discard him. No matter that the math didn’t add up, it was just how he felt.”
― Laura Kaye, Ride Dirty

tags: alone, fear, feelings, out-of-control, scared

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#5

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

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#6

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#7

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: poetry

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#8

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: poetry

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#10

“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: forgetting, hate, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-and-living, living, strength

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#11

“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: belief, bravery, courage, fear, fears, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, strength

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#12

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

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#13

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#14

“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: art-of-war, intimidation, peace, psychology, strategy, victory, war

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#15

“Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: awkward, creative, creativity, disagreeable, envy, intimidating, intimidation, mediocre, mediocrity, misunderstood, odd, original, originality, outcast, peculiar, strange, unusual

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#16

“he who knows when he can fight and when he cannot , will be victorious .”
― Sun Tzu

tags: art-of-war

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#17

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom

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#18

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

tags: belief, justice, lies, mercy, truth

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#19

“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
― Criss Jami

tags: agenda, bad-influence, compulsive-liar, controlling, craftsman, deception, destruction, dishonest, influence, lies, manipulation, media, mislead, slander, speak, true

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#20

“Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

tags: lies, truth

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#21

“Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

tags: being-real, fake-friends, fake-people, perfection, relationships

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#22

“No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: unconditional-love

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#23

“Love her but leave her wild.”
― Atticus

tags: unconditional-love

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#24

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

tags: machines, people

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#25

“I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: alone, differences, emotions, loneliness, people, personality

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#26

“You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

tags: differences, different, leonard-peacock, matthew-quick

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#27

“I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

tags: getting-along

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#28

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial

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#29

“You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

tags: complicated, loved, relationships

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#30

“They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using
their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated.”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

tags: complicated, kisses, talking

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#31

“Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

tags: abandonment, love, lullaby, song

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