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    Jane Austen
    “It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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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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    Albert Schweitzer
    “If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: love
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
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    Melina Marchetta
    “I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.”
    ― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi
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    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    ― Helen Keller
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: seuss
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    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Helen Keller
    “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #26
    Steve Martin
    “It's pain that changes our lives.”
    ― Steve Martin, Shopgirl
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    Steve Martin
    “Be undeniably good.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: creativity, inspirational, life
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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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    Johnny Depp
    “Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.”
    ― Johnny Depp
    tags: forward, johnny-depp, life, shit
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  • #30
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe
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