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    Lance Armstrong
    “A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.”
    ― Lance Armstrong
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: belief, delusions, faith, insanity
    1795 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: acceptance, life
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    Lao Tzu
    “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity
    3899 likes

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    Sara Zarr
    “Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound. ”
    ― Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl
    tags: fear, memories
    276 likes

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    Alice Walker
    “Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: goodbye, hold-you, leaving, let-go, letting-go, loss, miss-you-already
    251 likes

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    Johnny Depp
    “Now, bring me that horizon.”
    ― Johnny Depp
    tags: leaving, travel
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    John Lennon
    “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
    18880 likes

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    Oprah Winfrey
    “You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: dreams, life, time
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    George Herbert
    “The best mirror is an old friend.”
    ― George Herbert
    tags: friendship
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization
    4370 likes

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    Jeff Lindsay
    “Feeling - what authentic human fun!”
    ― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark
    tags: crime, lizard, vintage
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    William Shakespeare
    “To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: character, descent, heritage, mothers, sons, the-tempest
    92 likes

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  • #15
    “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
    ― Anthony G. Oettinger
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-groucho-marx, time
    6193 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “How did it get so late so soon?”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: afternoon, december, flewn, june, late, night, soon, time
    4200 likes

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    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: funny, humanity, humor
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    Jostein Gaarder
    “A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery
    tags: difference, joker, loneliness, stranger
    535 likes

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    Faraaz Kazi
    “I fell, she laughed. I fell hard, she laughed harder. Seeing that I kept falling till I fell in love.”
    ― Faraaz Kazi
    tags: falling, falling-in-love, joker, love, romance
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
    tags: introspection, loquacity, remaining-silent, reticence, silence
    1027 likes

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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: desire, loneliness, love, lust, passion, sex
    2485 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort
    1448 likes

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    Kami Garcia
    “You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.”
    ― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
    tags: humor, insult, toilet-humor
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    Groucho Marx
    “He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: gibe, insult
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    John Green
    “It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: belief, chance, chaos, coincidence
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: death, life, nineteen, road, years
    229 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo-baggins, dissipation, old-age
    1160 likes

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    Israelmore Ayivor
    “Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor
    tags: complex, difficult, dust, dust-the-rust, ease, excellence, extra, extra-mile, food-for-thought, must, possible, rust, success
    5 likes



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