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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational, live
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: humor, semantics, suspicion
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
    tags: love, simile
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    Cassandra Clare
    “But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, time
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    Randy Pausch
    “Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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    Mother Teresa
    “Peace begins with a smile..”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling
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    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Norman Vincent Peale
    “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
    ― Norman Vincent Peale
    tags: inspirational
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    Alice McDermott
    “We are surrounded by story.”
    ― Alice McDermott
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    René Descartes
    “I think; therefore I am.”
    ― Rene Descartes
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: clockwork-angel, will-herondale, william-herondale
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    John Green
    “Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: promises
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    Jay Asher
    “If my love were an ocean,
    there would be no more land.
    If my love were a desert,
    you would see only sand.
    If my love were a star-
    late at night, only light.
    And if my love could grow wings,
    I'd be soaring in flight.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
    tags: love
    1703 likes

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: alone, attributed-no-source
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    Chris Rock
    “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
    ― Chris Rock
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: fire, smoke, soul, van-gogh
    413 likes

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    Victoria Schwab
    “He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).”
    ― Victoria Schwab, Vicious
    tags: ask, better, broken, discover, himself, other, people, ponder, question, special, stupid, truth, wonder, worse, you, yourself
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    Victoria Schwab
    “Picking the best solution really depended on your definition of best.”
    ― Victoria Schwab, Vicious
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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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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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
    13708 likes

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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
    16343 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship, inspirational
    10690 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
    9532 likes



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