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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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    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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  • #3
    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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  • #4
    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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  • #5
    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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  • #6
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #9
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #10
    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
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  • #11
    Erin Hanson
    “There is freedom waiting for you,
    On the breezes of the sky,
    And you ask "What if I fall?"
    Oh but my darling,
    What if you fly?”
    ― Erin Hanson
    tags: freedom, inspiration, poetry
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  • #12
    Erin Hanson
    “Because the birdsong might be pretty,
    But it's not for you they sing,
    And if you think my winter is too cold,
    You don't deserve my spring.”
    ― Erin Hanson
    tags: beautiful, nature, spring, winter
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  • #13
    Erin Hanson
    “Do not hold your breath for anyone,
    Do not wish your lungs to be still,
    It may delay the cracks from spreading,
    But eventually they will.
    Sometimes to keep yourself together
    You must allow yourself to leave,
    Even if breaking your own heart
    Is what it takes to let you breathe.”
    ― Erin Hanson
    tags: abuse, breaking-free, freedom, independance, leaving, relationships, toxic-relationships
    234 likes

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  • #14
    Erich Fromm
    “Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
    ― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
    tags: decision, feeling, fromm, love
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    Erich Fromm
    “Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
    Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
    Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
    Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.”
    ― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
    tags: art, immaturity, love, maturity, need
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  • #16
    Erich Fromm
    “The mature response to the problem of existence is love.”
    ― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
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  • #17
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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  • #18
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
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  • #19
    C.S. Lewis
    “We do not disparage silver by distinguishing it from gold.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: four, loves, thefourloves
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  • #20
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: love
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  • #22
    D.H. Lawrence
    “The dead don't die. They look on and help.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: Volume 3, October 1916–June 1921
    tags: love-literature, love-quotes
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  • #23
    Van Jones
    “I don't want you to be safe ideologically. I don't want you to be safe emotionally. I want you to be strong. That's different. I'm not going to pave the jungle for you. Put on some boots, and learn how to deal with adversity. I'm not going to take all the weights out of the gym. This is the gym.”
    ― Van Jones
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