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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

#2

“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

165765 likes

#3

“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

129314 likes

#4

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119529 likes

#5

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109607 likes

#6

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

101768 likes

#7

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92553 likes

#8

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

89620 likes

#9

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

85277 likes

#10

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

82066 likes

#11

“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

78599 likes

#12

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

77929 likes

#13

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

76923 likes

#14

“We don't have to stop living because we might die.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

134 likes

#15

“Every lemon will bring forth a child, and the lemons will never die out.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

tags: emotional, faith, healing, hope, trauma

120 likes

#16

“It reminds me that as long as the lemon trees grow, hope will never die.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

86 likes

#17

“Bury me before I bury you" I did.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

tags: sad

61 likes

#18

“Might. What a word. It holds infinite possibilities of a life that could have been. So many options stacked one on top of the other, like cards waiting for a player to pick and choose.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

58 likes

#19

“This is the land of your father, and his father before him. Your history is embedded in this soil. No country in the world will love you as yours does.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

55 likes

#20

“Death is an excellent teacher.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

44 likes

#21

“He and I are owed a love story that doesn't end in tragedy.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

24 likes

#22

“Empires have collapsed throughout history. They rise, they build, and they fall. Nothing lasts forever. Not even our pain.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

22 likes

#23

“There are enough people hurting you,” he whispers. “Don’t be one of them.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

tags: crying-my-heart-out

21 likes

#24

“Fear is a cruel thing. The way it distorts thoughts, transforming them from molehills into mountains.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

14 likes

#25

“كلُّ ليمونة ستنجب طفلاً ومحال أن ينتهي الليمون

Every lemon will bring forth a child, and the lemons will never die out”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

tags: beautiful

11 likes

#26

“For every life I can’t save during my shift, one more drop of blood becomes a part of me. No matter how many times I wash my hands, our martyrs’ blood seeps beneath my skin, into my cells. By now it’s probably encoded in my DNA.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

10 likes

#27

“We are stripped from our choices, so we latch onto what will ensure our survival.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

9 likes

#28