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    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
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    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
    ― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
    tags: impossible, love, love-hurts, unrequited-love
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  • #3
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: inspirational-quotes, strength-and-courage
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    Veronica Roth
    “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: dauntless, divergent, fearless, four, tris
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    Veronica Roth
    “Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: christina, eyeliner, pretty, tris
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    Michelle Hodkin
    “Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”
    ― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
    tags: inspirational-quotes, mara-dyer, reality, truth
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    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Veronica Roth
    “Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other”
    ― Veronica Roth
    tags: hope, inspirational, pain
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    Veronica Roth
    “Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
    42829 likes

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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Love is the absence of judgment.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: inspiration
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    Hafez
    “And still, after all this time,
    The sun never says to the earth,
    "You owe Me."

    Look what happens with
    A love like that,
    It lights the Whole Sky.”
    ― Hafiz
    tags: faith, inspiration
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    Veronica Roth
    “But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: dauntless, divergent, myself
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    Veronica Roth
    “I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
    tags: armor, secrets
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    “True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: inspirational-quotes, true-beauty
    334 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: experience, inspirational, pain, wisdom, wounds
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  • #27
    John Green
    “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    Veronica Roth
    “Resisting is worth doing.”
    ― Veronica Roth, The Transfer
    tags: divergent, dystopian, resistance, the-transfer
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    Veronica Roth
    “You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?'

    'Something unfavorable,I assume.'

    I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
    tags: wisdom-quotes
    78 likes

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    Veronica Roth
    “I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: brave, pride, trouble
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