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    C.S. Lewis
    “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    Zeena Schreck
    “Nostalgia is an illness
    for those who haven't realized
    that today
    is tomorrow's nostalgia.”
    ― Zeena Schreck
    tags: autonomy, buddhism, disillusionment, illusion, impermanence, individuation, nostalgia, nostalgic, reality, spiritual-transformation, tantric-buddhism, zeena-schreck
    138 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: apathy, breakup, caring, contempt, desire, extreme, hate, hot, love, lukewarm, passion, relationships, romance, scorn, uncaring
    437 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: cruelty, evil, games, hateful, lack-of-empathy, painful, silence, sorrowful, uncaring, unchristlike, unholy, wrong
    70 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “If I didn't care for fun and such,
    I'd probably amount to much.
    But I shall stay the way I am,
    Because I do not give a damn.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
    tags: apathy, fame, pleasure
    812 likes

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    Philip Pullman
    “You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
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  • #15
    Alyson Noel
    “Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.”
    ― Alyson Noel, Blue Moon
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    William Shakespeare
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: destiny
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    Jodi Picoult
    “My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: daughters, growing-up, love, mothers
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Don't try to make me grow up before my time…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: growing-up, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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  • #23
    Rick Riordan
    “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: fate, future, knowledge
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    Maya Angelou
    “Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: aging, growing-up
    1688 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: growing-up, illusions, life
    2073 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: best-friends, commonsense, compassion, empathy, heartless, illegal, insecurities, integrity, jealousy, kindness, lack-of-integrity, merciless, pulls-you-down, stupidity, uncaring, unchristlike, values
    31 likes

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  • #28
    “I heard you were a player , okay , lets play a game.

    We'll flirt, play fights, talk 24/7, say goodmorning and goodnight every day, give each other nicknames, hang out, talk on the phone for hours, take cute pictures together, make promises to each other and hold each other.

    And whoever falls in love first, loses.”
    ― ST221
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: conscience, cruelty, don-t-harm-others, evil, games, giving-false-hope, humbling, lack-of-compassion, lack-of-forgiveness, lack-of-kindness, lies, mind, never-forget, responsibility, responsible, sin, tears, uncaring, what-you-did
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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  • #34
    Robert Frost
    “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: choice, consequence, individuality, inspirational
    2292 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: choice, life, pain, pleasure
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  • #38
    Baltasar Gracián
    “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
    ― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
    tags: choice, evil, invitation, strategy
    1977 likes

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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: choice, future, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, letting-go, letting-go-and-moving-on, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
    1977 likes

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  • #42
    Sarah Kay
    “I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
    ― Sarah Kay
    tags: best, choice, love, worst, you
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: choice, freedom, peace, war
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    Patrick Ness
    “To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
    ― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
    tags: choice, cowardice, responsibility
    904 likes

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    Anthony Burgess
    “When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    tags: choice, life, man
    910 likes

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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: aim, choice, goal
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: choice, choices, decision, decisions, destiny, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-quotes, living
    857 likes

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  • #54
    Libba Bray
    “There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”
    ― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
    tags: choice
    766 likes

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  • #56
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: belief, beliefs, believe, choice, choices, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
    558 likes



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