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  • #1
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: cynical, life, truth
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  • #3
    John Green
    “Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: cancer, depression, dying, life
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  • #4
    Khaled Hosseini
    “There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: life
    3390 likes

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  • #5
    Oprah Winfrey
    “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: appreciation, contentment, dissatisfaction, life, perception, positivity, thankfulness, thanksgiving
    2735 likes

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  • #6
    Katharine Hepburn
    “We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
    tags: change, life, self
    2068 likes

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  • #7
    Kami Garcia
    “The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.”
    ― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
    1913 likes

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  • #8
    Paulo Coelho
    “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: attitude, explain, gossip, life, people, public-opinion, time, wisdom
    4077 likes

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  • #9
    Wayne W. Dyer
    “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
    ― Wayne W. Dyer
    tags: karma, life
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  • #10
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
    ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    tags: analogy, inner-beauty, life
    1460 likes

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  • #11
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: impermanence, life, loss
    1366 likes

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  • #12
    Lao Tzu
    “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: courage, death, inspirational, life, moral-courage, real-life
    1871 likes

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  • #13
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Hardships make or break people.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: adversity, courage, life, perseverance
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  • #14
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: grief, grief-inspirational, heartbreak, life, life-lessons, love, love-hurts, love-story, price-of-love, prices, romance, sad, sad-but-true, sadness, true-love
    2523 likes

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  • #15
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss
    tags: blog, inspirational, life
    882 likes

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  • #16
    Kahlil Gibran
    “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: life
    813 likes

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  • #17
    Colleen Hoover
    “Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Slammed
    tags: life, shit, shit-happens
    535 likes

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  • #18
    George Carlin
    “It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, life, too-hip-for-the-room
    444 likes

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  • #19
    Mitch Albom
    “Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.”
    ― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
    tags: life, lose, memories, remember, share, tales
    511 likes

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  • #20
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
    ― Tagore
    tags: joy, service
    934 likes

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  • #21
    “By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: life, oprah
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  • #22
    Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty,
    “Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: care, christ, christianity, christmas, clothe, enemies, feed, forgive, golden-rule, guilty, hungry, ill, inspirational, jesus, life, love, motivational, naked, service, unwanted, welcome
    681 likes

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  • #23
    Reba McEntire
    “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.”
    ― Reba McEntire
    tags: humor, life, success
    234 likes

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  • #24
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.”
    ― Antoine de Saint Exupéry
    tags: inspirational, life
    181 likes

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  • #25
    Gertrude Stein
    “You look ridiculous if you dance
    You look ridiculous if you don't dance
    So you might as well
    dance.”
    ― Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
    tags: carpe-diem, dancing, life
    379 likes

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  • #26
    Sakyong Mipham
    “Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.”
    ― Sakyong Mipham
    tags: karma, life
    220 likes

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  • #27
    André Gide
    “The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”
    ― Andre Gide
    tags: life
    321 likes

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  • #28
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon
    tags: boundaries, feelings, life, people, relationships, respect, vanity
    395 likes



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