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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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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: alone, attributed-no-source
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    Amy Sedaris
    “I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge
    2095 likes

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    Sarah Dessen
    “I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: distance, focus, journeys, life, motion, time
    174 likes

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    Galileo Galilei
    “You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
    ― Galileo
    tags: teaching, wisdom
    685 likes

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    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    “To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.”
    ― Henri Frederic Amiel
    tags: education, teacher, teaching
    123 likes

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    Paulo Coelho
    “If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
    tags: forgetting, hope, love, pain, suffering, waiting
    5577 likes

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Haruki Murakami
    “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
    ― haruki murakami
    tags: letting-go, life, life-lessons, memories
    4585 likes

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    Santosh Kalwar
    “We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
    tags: addiction, life-lessons, philosophy, thinking, thoughts
    3196 likes

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  • #11
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
    tags: accomplishment, belief, rewriting-history, sherlock-holmes
    868 likes

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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: leaving, staying
    780 likes

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  • #13
    George Bernard Shaw
    “What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
    tags: alone, leaving, loss, love
    267 likes

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    Paulo Coelho
    “I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
    tags: waiting, you
    1122 likes

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    Naguib Mahfouz
    “لو أن لبائع اللب قدرة على الجدل لدلل على أنه يلعب دوراً خطيراً في حياة البشر، ولا يبعد أن يكون لكل شيئ قيمة ذاتية ولا يبعد كذلك ألا يكون لشيئ قيمة البتة، كم مليوناً من البشر يلفظون أنفاسهم في هذه اللحظة؟ في الوقت نفسه يرتفع صوت طفل بالبكاء على فقد لعبة، أو صوت عاشق يبث الليل والكون متاعب قلبه، أأضحك أم أبكي؟”
    ― نجيب محفوظ, Sugar Street
    tags: argument, argumentation, humanity, life, value, values
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