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#1

“The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of which
her beauty was a part.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

tags: beauty, edith-wharton, elegance, grace, lawrence-selden, lily-bart, love, the-house-of-mirth

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#2

“If you always make the right decision, the safe decision,
the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.”
― Paul Arden

tags: decisions

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#3

“Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello

tags: decisions, inspirational, life

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#4

“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: decisions, indecision

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#5

“you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

tags: decisions, doubt, inspirational

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#6

“Jump or stay in the boat.”
― Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Darkness

tags: beautiful-darkness, decisions, ethan-wate, lena-duchannes

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#7

“What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.”
― Bodie Thoene

tags: choices, decisions, right

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#8

“Sometimes you can’t figure out the truth because you’re asking people that are emotionally or socially invested in you to be brutally honest. Often family or friends will tell you what you want to hear, or what they want to believe because of their emotional investment in the situation. Instead of circling the drain with biased speculation, go out and get twenty unbiased people that have nothing to lose if they speak their mind and then ask them what they think. After you do that, stop asking for people’s perspectives. Accept their answer because you’re not going to ever know the real truth when the person you love lies to you. Sometimes, you only have the truth of commonsense when the unbiased majority has offered you their opinion. When we care about people, we will believe the most far-fetched fantasies to help us deal with our actions, their actions and the conversations we missed out on. Our intuition then becomes compromised. You should never put your life on hold, in order to decide what the truth is. The memory of truth no longer remains pure in the mind of a liar.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#9

“Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightnng from a clear sky, but perhaps everything is just as simple and just as infinitely complex as the processes that make a particular leaf fall at a particularmoment. That point has been reached, that's all. It has to happen, and it does happen.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Harbor

tags: decision-making, decisions

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#10

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
― Jean Paul Sartre

tags: freedom

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#11

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility

1914 likes

#12

“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.”
― Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach

tags: life

560 likes

#13

“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: hard-work, luck

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#14

“Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
― Jim Rohn

tags: hard-work, motivational

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#15

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

tags: hard-work, mastery, wonderful, work

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#16

“Do you know what it’s like to like someone so much you can’t stand it and know that they’ll never feel the same way?”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

tags: crush, one-sided

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#17

“I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, anger, battles, boyfriends, breakups, choices, confusion, crazy-love, crush, dating, disease, divorce, exboyfriends, exgirlfriends, exspouse, feelings, funny, hatred, humor, in-love, insane, insane-love, insanity, lack-of-communication, life, mad-love, marriage, mixed-signals, obsessive-love, partners, relationships, romance, spouse, struggles, stupid-men, stupid-women, unfinished-business, unrequited-love

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#18

“This isn't a crush, it's obsession.You are never not in my thoughts. Your scent carries across a room and paralyzes me with longing. I don't want to hold your hand. Part of me wants to set you on fire and hold you while the flame consumes us both, to eat your heart so I know that only I possess it entirely.”
― Gwen Hayes, Falling Under

tags: crush, love, obsession

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#19

“No more, no less. I'm an idiot. I really need to let this crush go.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Rise of Nine

tags: crush, romance

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#20

“I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist.

It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a ‘don't step on the small girl’ kind of way.”
― Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets

tags: crush, kiss, love

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#21

“I'm not going to make a big deal about a few tummy flutters because...dead people, old people, even furniture would get butterflies if they met this guy.”
― Anne Eliot

tags: almost, crush, love

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#22

“My heart had been touched by him, battered by him, cradled by him as the days passed. He was cruel without meaning to be yet he was kind, and I needed him too much to let myself want him”
― Mackenzie Herbert, Chasing Trains

tags: chasing-trains, crush, heartbroken, love, romance, unrequited-love, want

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#23

“I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

tags: clary-fray, demons, growing-up, humor, jace-wayland, luke, teenager

12356 likes

#24

“You’re a teenager. It’s all complicated.”
― Jenny B. Jones, There You'll Find Me

tags: complicated, growing-up, teenager

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#25

“Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you’re the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and you’re eleven again. Chasing cats in a tiny town, you’re eleven again, you’re sixteen again. You’re in a rowboat. You’re staring out the back of a car. Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening.”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Lost at Sea

tags: cats, comic, eleven, graphic-novel, lost-at-sea, sixteen, staring-at-stars, stars, teenager

122 likes

#26

“Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream.”
― James Ross

tags: adolescent, coach, family, golf, inspiration, sports, teenager

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#27

“Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

tags: anxious, character, life, patricia-highsmith, teenager, the-price-of-salt, young

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#28

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization

4363 likes

#29

“It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.”
― Betty Friedan

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#30

“Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: confidence, independence, love, man, modern-society, relationships, women

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