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#1

“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#2

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: independence

2567 likes

#3

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#4

“The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: humor, love, marriage

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#5

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: eyre, jane

2324 likes

#6

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

4959 likes

#7

“She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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#8

“When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”
― Ayn Rand

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#9

“Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.”
― Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It?

tags: excuses, rationalization

252 likes

#10

“The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.”
― Ayn Rand

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#11

“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: love, obsession, selfish-love

472 likes

#12

“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”
― Ayn Rand

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#13

“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. ”
― Ayn Rand

tags: evil, right, wrong

103 likes

#14

“The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.”
― Ayn Rand

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#15

“Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing else.”
― Ayn Rand

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#16

“There can be no compromise on moral principles.”
― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

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#17

“There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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#18

“There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged: Wer ist John Galt?

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#19

“Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake

743 likes

#20

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45221 likes

#21

“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

3693 likes

#22

“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

1488 likes

#23

“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: insanity, sanity

1070 likes

#24

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31549 likes

#25

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination

7160 likes

#26

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational

2972 likes

#27

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
― Maya Angelou

2671 likes

#28

“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”
― Maya Angelou

1083 likes

#29

“A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself ”
― Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational

807 likes

#30

“I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.”
― Maya Angelou

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