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    Jarod Kintz
    “Sometimes I get depressed about my age. In March I’ll be 26. If man weren’t measured in numbers, but rather letters, I’d be turning Z. And then I’d be dead.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, I Should Have Renamed This
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Paulo Coelho
    “People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Bill Ayers
    “You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”
    ― Bill Ayers
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver
    tags: art
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    Mark Twain
    “The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Sarah Dessen
    “There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
    tags: disappointment, disillusionment, emotional
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    Jeaniene Frost
    “Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.”
    ― Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave
    tags: kissing, romance
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: challanges
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Maybe I'm dreaming you. Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget all about each other.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
    tags: audrey-niffenegger, the-time-traveler-s-wife
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    Jennifer Echols
    “I understand I can’t have you. But I want to know you’re in the world with me.”
    ― Jennifer Echols, Forget You
    tags: doug
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    R.J. Anderson
    “But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.”
    ― R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet
    tags: courage, disappointment, relatable
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    Candace Bushnell
    “All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
    tags: dating, disappointment, feelings, life, men, numb
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    Cecelia Ahern
    “Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.”
    ― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life
    tags: cecelia-ahern, disappointment, fear-of-commitment, love, relationships, risks, the-time-of-my-life
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  • #15
    “I do look for the good in everyone. I also give them a chance to be their best, and I try to cope with my disappointment when they're not”
    ― Laura Taylor, Intimate Strangers
    tags: benefit, disappointment, good, people
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: dreams, life, love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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  • #18
    “None of us can choose where we shall love...”
    ― Susan Kay, Phantom
    tags: empathy, love, opera, passion, phantom, sympathy, understanding
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    Sylvia Plath
    “There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Claude Monet
    “Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
    ― Claude Monet
    tags: art, genius, obsession, passion
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  • #21
    Toni Morrison
    “At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
    ― Toni Morrison
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: attitude, perspective
    557 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: diary, painting
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    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”
    ― Leo Buscaglia
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    Pablo Picasso
    “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Edward Hopper
    “If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”
    ― Edward Hopper
    tags: inadequacy-of-words
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    Cath Crowley
    “For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.”
    ― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
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  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Sarah Dessen
    “I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
    tags: dexter, remy
    755 likes

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    Alyson Noel
    “I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
    ― Alyson Noel, Evermore
    tags: alyson, evermore, immortals, loss, noel
    2517 likes



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