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    Ann Brashares
    “You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.”
    ― Ann Brashares, The Last Summer of You and Me
    tags: chapter-title
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    J. Krishnamurti
    “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
    ― Jiddu Krishnamurti
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    J. Krishnamurti
    “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
    ― J. Krishnamurti
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom
    4372 likes

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    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
    tags: epigram, paradox, truth, wisdom
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    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
    ― Leo F. Buscaglia
    tags: inspiration, wisdom
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    Francis Bacon
    “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
    ― Francis Bacon, The Essays
    tags: opportunity, perseverance, wisdom
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    Dorothy Parker
    “In youth, it was a way I had,
    To do my best to please.
    And change, with every passing lad
    To suit his theories.

    But now I know the things I know
    And do the things I do,
    And if you do not like me so,
    To hell, my love, with you.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
    tags: adaptation, change, character, empowerment, love, men, nature, pleasing, self-discovery, self-esteem, self-respect, truthfulness, wisdom, women, youth
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
    ― Rumi
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: humor, wisdom
    1855 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: lincoln, mother, wisdom
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    Cassandra Clare
    “All knowledge hurts.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, disillusionment, experience, knowledge, wisdom
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
    ― Jean Jacques Rousseau
    tags: wisdom
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    Milton Berle
    “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
    ― Milton Berle
    tags: change, opportunity, self-determination, wisdom
    754 likes

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    Jess C. Scott
    “A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
    ― Jess C Scott
    tags: beauty, body, body-image, culture, dance, dancer, desire, fashion, fitness, food, food-for-thought, friendship, funny, girl, health, healthy, hip-hop, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, lust-for-life, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, self, sex, truth, wisdom, young, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adults, youth
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    John Flanagan
    “But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked.

    Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.”
    ― John Flanagan, Erak's Ransom
    tags: learning, mistakes, wisdom
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    Michel Foucault
    “People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
    ― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
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    Albert Einstein
    “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: education, knowledge-wisdom, learning, school, science, wisdom
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    George Eliot
    “Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
    ― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
    tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence
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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
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    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
    8433 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
    4504 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adulthood, success, value
    7080 likes



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