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#1

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, self-determination

5085 likes

#2

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought

7240 likes

#3

“The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

900 likes

#4

“I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is grief and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

tags: eragon, self-determination

235 likes

#5

“From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

165 likes

#6

“Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

80 likes

#7

“Do not dwell on what once was, but rather look forward and ponder how you can make the future brighter”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

76 likes

#8

“I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

26 likes

#9

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: inspirational

10724 likes

#10

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

9051 likes

#11

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

4572 likes

#12

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

tags: inspirational

3931 likes

#13

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination

7164 likes

#14

“When things go wrong, don't go with them.”
― Elvis Presley

tags: giving-up, hopelessness, life, perseverance, positivity

891 likes

#15

“Do something worth remembering.”
― Elvis Presley

200 likes

#16

“To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.”
― Elvis Presley

58 likes

#17

“People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand.”
― Elvis Presley

30 likes

#18

“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: integrity, self-actualization, self-determination

683 likes

#19

“The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

tags: be-yourself, self-determination

151 likes

#20

“So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key."

(Already Gone)”
― The Eagles, The Very Best of the Eagles

31 likes

#21

“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

6009 likes

#22

“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”
― Paul McCartney

tags: beatles, humor, music, nonjudgemental

985 likes

#23

“Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.”
― Paul McCartney, Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999

tags: black-jacket-poem

139 likes

#24

“Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”
― Paul Brandt

tags: inspiration, lyric

658 likes

#25

“I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.”
― Morrissey

tags: humor, lyrics, music

360 likes

#26

“It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind”
― Morrissey

tags: lyrics, smiths

335 likes

#27

“Disappointment came to me,
and booted me,
and bruised and hurt me,
but that's how people grow up.”
― Morrissey

tags: humor, life, lyrics, music

246 likes

#28

“It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true.
It only hurts because it's true.”
― Morrissey

tags: humor, lyrics, music

141 likes

#29

“How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.”
― Morrissey

tags: humor, lyrics, music

126 likes

#30

“Don't talk to me about people who are nice, 'cause I've spent my whole life in ruins over people who are nice.”
― Morrissey

128 likes

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