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#1

“Whoever said diamonds were a girl's best friend sure hasn't read a good book.”
― Savannah Gostlin

tags: best-friend, books, girl

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#2

“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: hearts, heaven, hell, love, pets, unloving, vulnerability-selfishness

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#3

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: love

20557 likes

#4

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

tags: humor, life

119194 likes

#5

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93616 likes

#6

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

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

77809 likes

#7

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

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#8

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

68226 likes

#9

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

29986 likes

#10

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

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#11

“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.”
― Bessie Anderson Stanley, More Heart Throbs Volume Two in Prose and Verse Dear to the American People And by them contributed as a Supplement to the original $10,000 Prize Book HEART THROBS

tags: life, misattributed-to-emerson, success, widely-misattributed

18554 likes

#12

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

22512 likes

#13

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

42069 likes

#14

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31558 likes

#15

“LAW 25
Re-Create Yourself

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

tags: dicta, inspirational, motivational

480 likes

#16

“There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.

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― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

289 likes

#17

“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...”
― Robert Greene

tags: mind, peace, quiet

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#18

“If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: danger, femme-fatale, passion

39 likes

#19

“...it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.”
― Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

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#20

“If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

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#21

“Becoming is better than being”
― Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

tags: 1960s

232 likes

#22

“Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

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#23

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling

5355 likes

#24

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
― John Wooden

tags: advice-for-daily-living, character, inspirational, self-image

1417 likes

#25

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: aim, aim-high, deep, effort, far-reaching, goal, goals, journey, limits, narrow, range, reach, reach-out, reaching-out, stars, trip, universe, wide

255 likes

#26

“We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon”
― Konrad Adenauer

tags: reach

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#27

“If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: attic, attitude, babble, basement, character, dirty-linen, earful, expand, gossip, grapevine, move, personality, reach, reputation, rumors, slander, spread, stink, stretch, sweep, talk, whisper, work-place

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#28

“Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: acids, bad, corrosive, destroyers, destruction, detractors, enemies, enemy, evil, evil-words, food-for-thought, gossips, haters, hatred, hurt, insults, israelmore-ayivor, kill, negative, negative-attitude, negative-people, skin, toxic-people, trouble

529 likes

#29

“Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: appearance, bad, character, destroyers, destruction, distractors, enemies, enemy, evil, evil-words, fiend, food-for-thought, good-self-image, gossips, haters, hatred, hurt, image, insults, kill, negative, negative-attitude, negative-people, negative-viewers, protect, protection, ruin, skin, tarnish, toxic-people, trouble, ugly-people, viewers, villian

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#30

“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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