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    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
    tags: love, mr-darcy
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    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Jane Austen
    “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Amy Tan
    “That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
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    Dodie Smith
    “How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: jane-austen
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    “Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.”
    ― Bonnie Eaker Weil, Financial Infidelity: Seven Steps to Conquering the #1 Relationship Wrecker
    tags: lying, marriage, relationships
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    Kent M. Keith
    “The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
    ― Kent M. Keith
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    Jim Henson
    “Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”
    ― Miss Piggy
    tags: boys, broken-hearts, healing, love, time
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    Mother Teresa
    “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: loneliness
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    Nicole Krauss
    “there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: comfort, sad, sadness
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
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    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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    Augusten Burroughs
    “I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs, Dry
    tags: loneliness, lonely, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
    Delicious Ambiguity.”
    ― Gilda Radner
    tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
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    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
    ― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
    tags: empathy, friends, friendship, inspirational
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    Martha Gellhorn
    “I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
    ― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters
    tags: ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, men, mothers, psychology, relationships, sons, women
    2343 likes

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    Nicholas Sparks
    “You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: inspirational, the-notebook
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: inspirational
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  • #10
    When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he
    “When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: boyfriend, girlfriend, inspirational, jealous, life, love, marriage, men, motivational, relationship, women
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    Joan Crawford
    “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
    ― Joan Crawford
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
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    Graham Greene
    “I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.”
    ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational, love
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
    tags: life, love
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    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “You are, and always have been, my dream.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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    Suzanne Collins
    “They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: envy, mockingjay, the-hunger-games
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
    tags: friends, judgement
    10551 likes



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