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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    William Shakespeare
    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: love
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    Tsitsi Dangarembga
    “This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.”
    ― Tsitsi Dangarembga
    tags: feminism, womanhood
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    John Updike
    “Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”
    ― John Updike, A Month of Sundays
    tags: life, time
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    John Updike
    “Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.”
    ― John Updike
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    John Updike
    “The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else. ”
    ― John Updike
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    John Updike
    “What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
    ― John Updike
    tags: art, books, literature, reading, words
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    John Updike
    “I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.”
    ― John Updike, Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
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    “There are only two ways to get in and out of an MG Midget sports car – the elegant way or my
    way. The elegant way is how you see the film stars do it on TV when they arrive at the Oscars. To get
    in, put your bum inside first and then swivel legs round. Similarly, to exit, swivel legs out, bum last.
    My way is to get everything but bum in first, leave bum out in the cold for a bit while struggling with
    other appendages, and then bum can come in. To get out, I simply fall on to the pavement.”
    ― Sarah Mason, Playing James
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    Johanna Spyri
    “I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”
    ― Johanna Spyri, Heidi
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    Criss Jami
    “If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: adversity, alone, beautiful, compassion, difficulties, finding-oneself, hardship, humanity, loneliness, misunderstanding, pain, sadness, solitude, understanding
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    Amit Abraham
    “My life is like an autumn leaf
    I lie around unclaimed.
    The breeze blows me around,
    To be trampled under the feet of men.
    Natures cruel feast has bestowed me with pain,
    Pain of being a part,
    Just a part of someone.
    Pain of departing,
    Departing from that one.
    Pick me up like a rose,
    And hold me to your heart.
    Keep me there till he does not come.
    And when he comes do a good deed,
    Dig the earth below,
    And bury me deep
    For I don't want to lie around,
    Unclaimed, unloved.”
    ― Dr. Amit Abraham
    tags: emotion, lonely, longing, love, unclaimed
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    Mandy Hale
    “If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: alone, aloneness, being-yourself, courage, embracing-who-you-are, faith-in-yourself, feeling-alone, finding-yourself, gifts, independence, journey, knowing-yourself, life, loneliness, lonely, loving-yourself, positive-thinking, self-love, self-worth, strength
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    Ishmael Beah
    “In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.”
    ― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
    tags: beah, gone, grandmother, inspiration, ishmael, long, sky, way
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    Toba Beta
    “When people stargazing, they stare at stars,
    and many other things which they've already
    presumed commonly and universally as stars.”
    ― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
    tags: alien, civilization, life, sky, space, star, stargaze, stargazing, stars, truth, ufo
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the
    sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: sky
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
    tags: earth, poems, sky, trees
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    George R.R. Martin
    “She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: rain, sky, sorrow, tears, weep, wept
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    Walt Whitman
    “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
    You must travel it by yourself.
    It is not far. It is within reach.
    Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
    Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: autonomy, journey, self-reliance
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    Criss Jami
    “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: art, artist, artistic, contemplating, dreams, experience, fantasy, fun, imagination, life, perception, perspective, poetry, reading, reality, solitude, songwriting, thinking, thoughts, universe, vicarious, writing
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    Shaun Hick
    “You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”
    ― Shaun Hick
    tags: appreciate, appreciate-life, bad-times, cancer, crawling, darkness, good-times, hard-times, holding-on, learning, life, life-lessons, pain, reward, shadows, sickness, struggle, suicide, sun, surviving, test
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