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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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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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    Albert Camus
    “I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    “Someone picked up the sun and pinned it to the sky again, but every day it hangs a little lower than the day before. It's like a negligent parent who only knows one half of who you are. It never sees how its absence changes people. How different we are in the dark.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: omg-amazing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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  • #8
    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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #10
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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  • #15
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60215 likes

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  • #17
    “Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
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  • #18
    “I think I might fetch you the moon if only to spare your tears again.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom
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  • #19
    “I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: beautiful, couples, kiss, love, metaphor, need, ya
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  • #20
    “His smile is laced with dynamite. "Go to sleep"
    "Go to hell."
    He works his jaw. Walks to the door. "I'm working on it.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
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  • #21
    “My voice softens. 'How old are you?'
    'I'll be eleven next year.'
    I grin. 'So you're ten years old?'
    He crosses his arms. Frowns. 'I'll be twelve in two years.'
    I think I already love this kid.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: shatter-me, tahereh-mafi
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  • #22
    “Find me a cure for these tears, I'd really like to exhale for the first time in my life.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
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  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
    tags: fiction, humor
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    Albert Camus
    “I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so?”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Albert Camus
    “After awhile you could get used to anything.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
    tags: existentialism
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    Albert Camus
    “Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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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
    130032 likes

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  • #29
    “Though if you mean to take me captive, you need
    only ask. I would come willingly.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom
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  • #30
    “What a strange girl you are...to behold a rose and perceive only its thorns, never the bloom.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom
    tags: this-woven-kingdom
    50 likes



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