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    Jessica Park
    “He just wasn’t the guy, you know? I want the guy. The everything guy. Not the dumb Prince Charming, nauseatingly-perfect everything guy. That’s pathetic. I want the flaws-and-all everything guy.”
    ― Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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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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    Daniel Wallace
    “They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”
    ― Daniel Wallace
    tags: big-fish, cheesy, inspirational, love, love-at-first-sight, love-story, lovely, motivational-inspirational, time, timeless
    104 likes

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    Marcel Proust
    “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: memory, nostalgia, recollection
    1313 likes

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    Marcel Proust
    “Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
    ― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive
    tags: beauty, imagination, proust, women
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    Marcel Proust
    “We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: inspirational, wisdom
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    Marcel Proust
    “The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
    ― Marcel Proust
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    Marcel Proust
    “Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. ”
    ― Marcel Proust
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    Marcel Proust
    “We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: experiencing, healing, suffering
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    Marcel Proust
    “It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.”
    ― Marcel Proust
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    Marcel Proust
    “People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.”
    ― Marcel Proust
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    Marcel Proust
    “There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said
    things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that
    he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.”
    ― Marcel Proust
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    Anne Lamott
    “You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
    ― Anne Lamott
    tags: grief, loss, recovery
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life
    2956 likes

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    Lao Tzu
    “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect
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    Gerard de Marigny
    “Goals are your destinations in life; objectives are the stops along the way.”
    ― Gerard de Marigny, The Watchman of Ephraim
    tags: goals-in-life, inspirational
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
    9135 likes

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    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
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    Bram Stoker
    “We learn from failure, not from success!”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: inspirational, mistakes
    2195 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, attributed-no-source, difference, paradox, significance
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: desire, life, lost, paradox, tragedy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom
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    Jojo Moyes
    “Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
    ― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
    tags: mistakes
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars
    tags: humor, justification, mistakes, pretexts
    699 likes



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