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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
    tags: confidence
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
    tags: conduct-of-life, life, self-confidence, self-trust
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    Carlos Castaneda
    “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
    ― Carlos Castaneda
    tags: confidence, inspirational
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    Edward Everett Hale
    “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
    ― Edward Everett Hale
    tags: ability, accomplishment, confidence, determination, self, self-esteem
    816 likes

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    Nicholas Sparks
    “You're very perceptive for a guy who can go a whole day without talking,” she said, peering up at him. “That's why I'm perceptive.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride
    tags: introverts, laconic, perceptive, quiet, talkers
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    Petra Hermans
    “I love it, when it is quiet on the streets,
    and I am all alone.
    Petra Hermans”
    ― Petra Hermans
    tags: quiet
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    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.”
    ― Mary Anne Radmacher
    tags: courage, inspirational, perseverance
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    Karl Lagerfeld
    “Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    tags: altruism, care, caring, designer, ego, happiness, life, love, nobody, self-love, self-sacrifice, selfish, wisdom
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    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.”
    ― Georgia O'Keeffe
    tags: art, georgia-o-keeffe, inspirational, wisdom, women-s-issues
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    Joshua Slocum
    “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
    ― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
    tags: alone, books, friends, solitude
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “To feel alone is to be alone.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
    tags: alone, everything-is-illuminated, jonathan-safran-foer
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    Sebastian Faulks
    “I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.”
    ― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby
    tags: alone, solitude
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    Richard Brautigan
    “For fear you will be alone
    you do so many things
    that aren’t you at all.”
    ― Richard Brautigan
    tags: alone, loneliness
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: alone, people, solitude, tricks
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    William Faulkner
    “Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.”
    ― William Faulkner, Mosquitoes
    tags: fool, silence, stupidity, talking, words
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: important, influence, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leaders, leadership, life, life-quotes, listen, listening, living, motivation, motivational, talk, talking
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: hurt, lewis, misery, sad, truth
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    William James
    “There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
    ― William James
    tags: habits, indecision, misery
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: bipolar-disorder, depression, harmony, misery, vincent-van-gogh
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  • #22
    “You are suffering from yourself. Others are just a symptom.”
    ― Shunya
    tags: buddhism, ego, hinduism, karma, life, misery, pain, suffering
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    Iris Murdoch
    “He felt misery, loneliness, a terrible need for love.”
    ― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet
    tags: iris-murdoch, loneliness, longing, love, misery, sad, the-message-to-the-planet, unloved
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    Iris Murdoch
    “I'm made for misery, misery, misery, I'm made to be destroyed!”
    ― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet
    tags: anguish, destroyed, fatalistic, iris-murdoch, misery, nihilistic, the-message-to-the-planet
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    Laura Thalassa
    “This is misery, Sara,” he repeats. “But it is the sweetest misery I have ever felt. I don’t want it to stop.”
    ― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence
    tags: inspirational, love, misery, new-adult, new-adult-paranormal-romance, paranormal, paranormal-romace, romance
    24 likes

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  • #27
    “Why does everybody need to talk about everything?”
    ― Don Draper
    tags: mad-men
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  • #28
    “I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere I've already been”
    ― Matthew Weiner
    tags: don-draper, mad-men, places
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  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Amie Kaufman
    “I never knew it was possible to be so miserable in so many ways.”
    ― Amie Kaufman, These Broken Stars
    tags: depression, miserable, misery
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “I wasn't an insomniac, but I was miserable.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
    tags: miserable, my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation, ottessa-moshfegh
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