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    Cassandra Clare
    “Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
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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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    Ayn Rand
    “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
    ― Ayn Rand
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: child, heart, hurt, word, wound
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  • #5
    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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    Helen Keller
    “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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    Nicholas Sparks
    “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”
    ― Nicholas Sparks
    tags: love, nicholas-sparks, romance, the-notebook
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  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
    tags: love, romance
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
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    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    “When love is not madness it is not love.”
    ― Pedro Calderon de la Barca
    tags: love, romance
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
    tags: love, romance
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    Charles Dickens
    “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: kissing, love, romance
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    Trisha Yearwood
    “What's meant to be will always find a way”
    ― Trisha Yearwood
    tags: fate, inspiration, love
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    Fredrik Backman
    “Bitterness can be corrosive. It can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Beartown
    tags: beartown, bitterness
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    A.A. Milne
    “How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet
    "You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: love, piglet, pooh-bear, winnie-the-pooh
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #18
    “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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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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  • #22
    “When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.”
    ― Meljean Brook, Riveted
    tags: self-preservation, stupidity
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    Kristin Hannah
    “Heartache had been a part of her life so long it had become as familiar as the color of her hair or the slight curve in her spine. Sometimes it was the lens through which she viewed her world and sometimes it was the blindfold she wore so she didn't see. But it was always there. (p117)”
    ― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds
    tags: heartache, self-discovery
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  • #24
    Matt Haig
    “The only way to learn is to live.”
    ― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
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    Willow Aster
    “You're impossible.
    You're delectable.
    You're incorrigible.
    You're edible.
    I sigh, frustrated and turned on.
    You know it's true. He inches closer.
    No, I can't really say that I do.
    Well, I can.”
    ― Willow Aster, True Love Story
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    Karen Marie Moning
    “There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.”
    ― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “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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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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  • #29
    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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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101565 likes



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