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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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    Louise Erdrich
    “Leave the dishes.
    Let the celery rot in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator
    and an earthen scum harden on the kitchen floor.
    Leave the black crumbs in the bottom of the toaster.
    Throw the cracked bowl out and don't patch the cup.
    Don't patch anything. Don't mend. Buy safety pins.
    Don't even sew on a button.
    Let the wind have its way, then the earth
    that invades as dust and then the dead
    foaming up in gray rolls underneath the couch.
    Talk to them. Tell them they are welcome.
    Don't keep all the pieces of the puzzles
    or the doll's tiny shoes in pairs, don't worry
    who uses whose toothbrush or if anything
    matches, at all.
    Except one word to another. Or a thought.
    Pursue the authentic-decide first
    what is authentic,
    then go after it with all your heart.
    Your heart, that place
    you don't even think of cleaning out.
    That closet stuffed with savage mementos.
    Don't sort the paper clips from screws from saved baby teeth
    or worry if we're all eating cereal for dinner
    again. Don't answer the telephone, ever,
    or weep over anything at all that breaks.
    Pink molds will grow within those sealed cartons
    in the refrigerator. Accept new forms of life
    and talk to the dead
    who drift in though the screened windows, who collect
    patiently on the tops of food jars and books.
    Recycle the mail, don't read it, don't read anything
    except what destroys
    the insulation between yourself and your experience
    or what pulls down or what strikes at or what shatters
    this ruse you call necessity.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, Original Fire
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    Joseph Campbell
    “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
    tags: inspirational
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    Bram Stoker
    “We've all become god's madmen, all of us.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    Voltaire
    “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: denial, fear, reality, truth, truth-hurts, truth-quotes, truths
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    DaShanne Stokes
    “Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.”
    ― DaShanne Stokes
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    Howard Thurman
    “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
    ― Howard Thurman
    tags: inspirational
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    Howard Thurman
    “There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”
    ― Howard Thurman
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    Howard Thurman
    “And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.”
    ― Howard Thurman
    tags: old-age, paradoxes
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    Howard Thurman
    “If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.”
    ― Howard Thurman
    tags: subjection, subjugation, temper, tyranny-quotes, tyrants
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    Howard Thurman
    “He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny.”
    ― Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
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    Howard Thurman
    “What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.”
    ― Howard Thurman
    tags: life, mystery, secret
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    Rob Liano
    “Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”
    ― Rob Liano
    tags: adversity, advice, be-positive, begging, betrayed, better-than-this, breakups, broken, change-your-life, chasing, compete, competition, competitive-women, confidence, crying, dates, dating, daydreaming, decieved, deja-vu, delusional, denial-big-time, depression, desperate, dignity, doormat, exboyfriend, false-hope, find-your-balance, fool, foolish, get-moving, get-over-it, get-up, giving-up, hanging-on, heartbreak, hurting, ignorant, in-love, inner-peace, insecurity, jealous-women, know-worth, lack-of-confidence, lack-of-respect, let-go, lies, love, low-self-esteem, marriage, married-women, men, mercy, moving-on, nostalgic, pathetic, pity, pride, relationships, reputation, see-your-value, seeing, self-abuse, self-degradation, self-denial, self-empowerment, self-loathing, self-love, self-respect, self-worth, settling, single-woman, single-women, sorrow, staying-positive, stayingpositveu-com, strength, support, trial, true-strength, undermining, value, warrior-woman, warrior-women, woman, women
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    Peter Høeg
    “If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself.”
    ― Peter Hoeg
    tags: support
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    “Maybe the struggle is to keep us humble”
    ― spoken silence
    tags: humble, inspirational, life, love, respect, struggle, support, women-empowerment
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    Habeeb Akande
    “Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour
    True friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.”
    ― Habeeb Akande
    tags: fake-friends, friends
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    Criss Jami
    “Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: accusations, allies, belief, believing, connection, discernment, doubt, enemies, faithfulness, fake-friends, friend, friends, friendship, friendships, friendships-and-love, guilt, haters, honesty, innocence, judgment, love, love-and-friendship, loyalty, misunderstood, opposition, questions, relationship, sincerity, skepticism, suspicion, trust, trusting, truth, understanding
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    Sophie Kinsella
    “This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.”
    ― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Ties the Knot
    tags: fake-friends, friends, secret, secrets, shopaholic
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    “I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don’t vibrate on the same frequency there’s just no reason for us to waste our time. I’d rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk.”
    ― Joquesse Eugenia
    tags: friends, friendship, life-lessons, relationships
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: burden, detractors, distract, egocentric, egoism, egotism, egotist, fake-friends, fatal, laziness, lazy, michael-bassey-johnson, mission, narcissism, parasites, perch, satisfaction, self-absorbed, self-centred, self-interest, self-obsessed, vain
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    Jodee Blanco
    “What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128”
    ― Jodee Blanco, Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
    tags: bullying, fake-friends, friendship, judgement, outcasts
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    Jody Gehrman
    “I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.”
    ― Jody Gehrman, Babe in Boyland
    tags: dishonesty, fake, friends, friendship, humor, pretense
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: acid, attack, bad-people, calumny, chemical, counterfeit, deception, decievers, demon, devil, fake, fake-friends, fault-finders, food-for-thought, gossip, haters, hatred, hurt, incessant, insanity, negative, negative-people, pessimism, plot, ploy, pretence, pretenders, slander, slanderers, smiles, strategy, swindle, sycophants, toxic-people, trick, troubesome-people, trouble, villain
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: character, cowardice, defend, fake-friends, friends, friendship, judgment, judgmental, judgmental-people, reliance, speak, support, supporters
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they discuss you with their friends and family, compete with you, bad mouth you to others or react to anything you do or say is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: anger, betrayal, cheaters, dishonorable-men, fake-christians, frustration, games, gossip, hidden-agendas, insecure-women, insecurity, jealous-women, liars, not-caring, obvious, slighted, stalkers
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    Santosh Kalwar
    “If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar
    tags: enemy, friendship, love
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    Israelmore Ayivor
    “Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
    tags: ambitions, bad-friends, boat, discredit, drill, drill-hole, evil-friends, fake, fake-friends, false, false-friends, food-for-thought, friends, hole, hypocrites, impact, israelmore-ayivor, leak, legacies, legacy, negative-friends, people, pretenders
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: be-better, be-kind, clever, comments, embarrassment, fake, give-people-space, google-plus, hidden-agendas, humor, jabs, let-it-go, lighten-up, listen-more, obvious, open-wall, pinterest, posting, quotes, reality, run-away, self-respect, social-media, truthful, wakeup-call, walk-away, women
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