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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abe, enemies, enemy, friend, friends, friendship, life, lincoln
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    Bill Watterson
    “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
    ― Bill Watterson
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: wish
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    John Grisham
    “In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
    ― John Grisham
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: dark, stars
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  • #6
    Sarah Dessen
    “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.”
    ― Sarah Dessen
    tags: inspirational, strength, tough-times
    2841 likes

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  • #7
    Mother Teresa
    “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa
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  • #8
    Honoré de Balzac
    “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal
    tags: human-nature, love
    2891 likes

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  • #9
    Zig Ziglar
    “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
    ― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World
    tags: bathing, humor, motivation
    2553 likes

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  • #10
    John Green
    “Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: gandalf, grief
    5924 likes

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  • #12
    Dorothy Parker
    “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly
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  • #13
    Yann Martel
    “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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    Maxim Gorky
    “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
    ― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays
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  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: courage
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  • #16
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #17
    W.P. Kinsella
    “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
    ― W.P. Kinsella
    tags: happiness, success
    3950 likes

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  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #19
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
    tags: adventure, death, life
    5806 likes

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  • #20
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
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    John Green
    “At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: looking-for-alaska
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  • #22
    Groucho Marx
    “Humor is reason gone mad.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humor, reason
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  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: books, magic, magic-books
    4496 likes

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  • #24
    “Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.”
    ― Lady Gaga
    tags: beyonce, lady-gaga, mirror, trust
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  • #25
    Horton Foote
    “I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
    ― Horton Foote
    tags: inspirational, life
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  • #26
    Peter Shaffer
    “The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
    ― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise
    tags: life, life-lessons
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  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
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  • #28
    “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, inspirational
    6380 likes

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  • #30
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: inspirational
    3204 likes



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