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    Lina Kostenko
    “жінка – як музика, її можна любити, навіть не дуже розуміючи.”
    ― Lina Kostenko, Записки українського самашедшого
    tags: femme, woman, женщина, жінка
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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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    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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  • #4
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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  • #5
    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
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  • #6
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics: The Annotated
    tags: alcohol, drinking, happy
    801 likes

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  • #7
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    “My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.”
    ― Ashleigh Brilliant
    tags: always, changed, fact, humble, humor, opinions, right
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  • #8
    “7 things negative people will do to you. They will...
    1. Demean your value;
    2. Destroy your image
    3. Drive you crazily!
    4. Dispose your dreams!
    5. Discredit your imagination!
    6. Deframe your abilities and
    7. Disbelieve your opinions!

    Stay away from negative people!”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor
    tags: 7-habits-of-negative-people, abilities, ability, bad, bad-friends, bad-people, companions, crazily, crazy, deframe, demean, destroy, disbelieve, discredit, dispose, disvalue, drive, food-for-thought, friends, friendship, good-friends, ideas, image, imaginations, israelmore-ayivor, negative, negative-people, negativity, opinions, people, potentials, power, stay-away, thought, toxic-people, value
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  • #9
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
    tags: cold, desolation, jaded, lonley, sad-truth, winter
    334 likes

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  • #10
    Germany Kent
    “Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.”
    ― Germany Kent
    tags: empowerment, encourage-yourself, encouragement-and-attitude, encouragement-quotes, encouraging-and-empowering-girls, freedom-of-choice, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-thought, happiness, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-living, inspirational-quotes, inspirational-religious, live-in-peace, live-in-the-here-and-now, live-in-the-moment, live-in-the-now, live-in-the-present, motivational, motivational-inspirational, motivational-quote, motivational-quotes-for-women, motivational-speaker, one-day-at-a-time, peace, propserity, purposeful-living, smile-happiness, smile-happiness-peace, spiritual-growth, today-is-the-day, try-again, try-and-try-again, try-your-best, trying-new-things, wisdom
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  • #11
    “I must cease living the false life of an imposter, and stop worrying about the future or risk sacrificing the joy of living in the moment. I am a seeker. I shall listen to the teaching my blood whispers and ecstatically accept life unfolding in whatever manner my innate material demands.”
    ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
    tags: acceptance-of-oneself, live-in-the-here-and-now, live-in-the-moment, live-in-the-now, live-in-the-present, seeker, seeking
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  • #12
    Erin Hanson
    “Because the birdsong might be pretty,
    But it's not for you they sing,
    And if you think my winter is too cold,
    You don't deserve my spring.”
    ― Erin Hanson
    tags: beautiful, nature, spring, winter
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  • #13
    Dejan Stojanovic
    “To hear never-heard sounds,
    To see never-seen colors and shapes,
    To try to understand the imperceptible
    Power pervading the world;
    To fly and find pure ethereal substances
    That are not of matter
    But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
    To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
    To be a lantern in the darkness
    Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
    To feel much more than know.
    To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
    To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
    To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
    To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
    Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
    To be a smile on the face of a woman
    And shine in her memory
    As a moment saved without planning.”
    ― Dejan Stojanovic
    tags: cities, colors, darkness, dejan-stojanovic, eagle, ethereal, eyes, face, face-of-a-woman, feel, feelings, fly, flying, imperceptible, invisible, know, lantern, leaves, matter, memory, moment, moon, mountain, pedestrian, planning, poetry, poets, power, read, reality, shapes, shine, smile, soul, sounds, stormy-day, streets, substances, task-of-a-poet, tree, umbrella, understanding, watching, wave, whisper, world
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  • #14
    Steve Maraboli
    “Dare to Be

    When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.

    When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.

    When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.

    When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.

    When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.

    When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.

    When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.

    When times are tough, dare to be tougher.

    When love hurts you, dare to love again.

    When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.

    When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.

    When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.

    When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.

    When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.

    When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.

    Dare to be the best you can –

    At all times, Dare to be!”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: compassion, dare-to-be, gratitude, inspirational, life, motivational, seize-the-day, smile, success
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  • #15
    “A star does not compete with other stars around it; it just shines.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: be-you-quote, be-yourself-quotes, dream-quotes, dreamer-quotes, greatness-quotes, inner-light-quotes, life-lesson-quotes, life-lessons-quotes, life-quotations, life-quotes, life-quotes-and-sayings, shine-quotes, shine-your-light-quotes, stand-out, stand-out-from-the-crowd, star-quotes, success-quotes
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  • #16
    “The first thing you have to identify when you are in the dark is light.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: inner-light-quotes, light-quotations, light-quotes, philosophy-quotes, spiritual-quotes, wisdom-quotations, wisdom-quotes, wise-quotations, wise-quotes
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  • #17
    Alysha Speer
    “Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired.
    Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision.
    Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy.
    Trust, even when your heart begs you not to.
    Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see.
    Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring.
    Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.
    And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.”
    ― Alysha Speer
    tags: afraid, brave, cry, frolick, heart, kiss, laugh, life, live, remember, run, sing, sleep, smile, trust, twirl
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    Milan Kundera
    “Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: love, monogamy, polygamy, sleep
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    Poppy Z. Brite
    “The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
    ― Poppy Z. Brite
    tags: insomnia, night, sleep
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  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sleep my little baby-oh
    Sleep until you waken
    When you wake you'll see the world
    If I'm not mistaken...

    Kiss a lover
    Dance a measure,
    Find your name
    And buried treasure...

    Face your life
    Its pain,
    Its pleasure,
    Leave no path untaken.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: awakening, choice, dance, identity, individuality, life, love, name, pain, pleasure, sleep, treasure
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    Jennifer Niven
    “I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
    tags: happy, love, mind, peace, relaxation, sleep, thoughts
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  • #22
    Werner Herzog
    “What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
    ― Werner Herzog
    tags: dreams, monsters, ocean, sleep
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    Raymond Carver
    “I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.”
    ― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
    tags: confusion, death, dreaming, insomnia, life, lost, place, sleep
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  • #24
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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  • #25
    Pete Wentz
    “I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.”
    ― Pete Wentz, Gray
    tags: brain, insomnia, mind, non-stop, sleep, sleepless
    140 likes

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  • #26
    Dejan Stojanovic
    “I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.”
    ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
    tags: dejan-stojanovic, literature, literature-quotes, ocean, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, quotes, shore, thoughts, wisdom
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    Dejan Stojanovic
    “Wherever I go, I meet myself.”
    ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
    tags: dejan-stojanovic, literature, literature-quotes, myself, myself-quatation, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, quotes, run, thoughts, wisdom
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    Tim Fargo
    “When there is silence,
    Give your voice.
    When there is darkness,
    Shine your light.
    When there is desperation,
    Offer hope.”
    ― Tim Fargo
    tags: boost, catalyst, creativity, darkness, despair, desperation, encouragement, fillip, goad, hope, hopeful, imagination, imaginativeness, impulse, incentive, incitement, individuality, influence, ingenuity, innovation, innovativeness, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, inventiveness, lift, light, lightness, motivate, motivating-force, motivation, motivational, muse, originality, shine, spur, stimulation, stimulus, voice, voice-of-wisdom
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  • #29
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: giving, goals, goals-in-life, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, learn, learning, life, life-quotes, light, light-and-darkness, living-life, meaning, meaning-of-life, meaningful, meaningful-life, wisdom, wise
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  • #30
    Lewis Carroll
    “Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
    "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
    "You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
    "Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor, less, more, nonsense, tea
    856 likes



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