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    Jane Austen
    “When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: contemplation, nature, night, sorrow, sublime, wickedness
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    Rick Riordan
    “Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: glory
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    Russell Brand
    “Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.”
    ― Russell Brand
    tags: children, conformity, glory, rebellion
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    Bruce Lee
    “Not being tense but ready.
    Not thinking but not dreaming.
    Not being set but flexible.
    Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
    It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
    ― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
    tags: zen
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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  • #10
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: life, love
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    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    ― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne
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    Mitch Albom
    “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: death, life
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
    11450 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: human, life, value, worth
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
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    John Lennon
    “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, fear, life, love
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    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
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    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Jonathan Swift
    “When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

    [Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
    ― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays
    tags: dunces, genius, stupidity
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    Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
    “Now everything is sold on the Internet and anybody at all who doesn't know a thing can give their opinion.”
    ― Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
    tags: internet, modern-opinion
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  • #24
    Helen Gurley Brown
    “good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere”
    ― Helen Gurley Brown
    tags: feminism, humor, naughty, sex, virginity
    259 likes

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  • #25
    Alice Sebold
    “You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
    ― Alice Sebold
    tags: inspirational, rape, self-responsibility
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    Gavin de Becker
    “Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.”
    ― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
    tags: death, fear, feminism, gender, men, rape, sexism, women
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    Naomi Wolf
    “Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
    ― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
    tags: advertising, aging, beauty, body-image, cosmetic-surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet-industry, double-standards, eating-disorders, equality, fashion-industry, feminism, harassment, images, law, magazines, marketing, mass-culture, objectification, plastic-surgery, pornography, rape, self-esteem, sexual-harassment, sexual-violence, sexuality, society
    360 likes

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    Inga Muscio
    “Men who refuse to use condoms do not deserve to be fucked by anyone but other men who refuse to use condoms.”
    ― Inga Muscio
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  • #29
    “YOU YOU YOU

    your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook
    crackling and yellow, curling at the edges
    a book of myths
    in which i do not appear.”
    ― Clint Catalyst, Caresses Soft as Sandpaper
    tags: absence, clint-catalyst, eyes, poem, short, unrequited-love
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  • #30
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore...”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
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