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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran
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    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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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    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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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: forgetfulness, forgetting, happiness, memory
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: beatitudes
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #11
    Maya Angelou
    “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
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
    ― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
    tags: friendship
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    Anaïs Nin
    “From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.”
    ― Anais Nin
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    Anaïs Nin
    “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
    ― Anais Nin
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  • #17
    Lao Tzu
    “Be content with what you have;
    rejoice in the way things are.
    When you realize there is nothing lacking,
    the whole world belongs to you.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: contentment
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    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
    tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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  • #21
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: attributed-no-source, courage
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  • #22
    David Sedaris
    “I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”
    ― David Sedaris, Naked
    tags: changing-others
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    David Sedaris
    “My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.”
    ― David Sedaris
    tags: acceptance, hatred, self-worth, truth
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  • #24
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger than Fiction
    tags: writing-life
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
    tags: hope
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    Lemony Snicket
    “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: death
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    Maureen Corrigan
    “It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
    ― Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
    tags: books, people, reading
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  • #29
    Heath L. Buckmaster
    “Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
    ― Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale
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    Peter Cameron
    “I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.”
    ― Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
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