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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92181 likes

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  • #4
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69679 likes

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  • #10
    Michael Connelly
    “don’t worry, I’m not going to hold it against you when you end up wrong.”
    ― Michael Connelly, A Darkness More Than Night
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  • #11
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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  • #12
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
    13160 likes

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  • #15
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
    tags: happiness, sadness
    6571 likes

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  • #16
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: chance, happiness, risk
    5052 likes

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  • #17
    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: gratitude, happiness
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  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: happiness, sanity
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  • #19
    David Henry Hwang
    “I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
    ― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
    tags: happiness
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  • #20
    Honoré de Balzac
    “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
    tags: courage, happiness, work
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  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: happiness
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    Haruki Murakami
    “It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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  • #23
    Rita Mae Brown
    “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: bad-memory, forgiveness, happiness, memory
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  • #24
    Aristotle
    “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: happiness
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  • #25
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
    ― Guillaume Apollinaire
    tags: happiness, life
    1940 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: happiness, rightness
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  • #27
    Carrie Jones
    “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
    ― Carrie Jones, Need
    tags: courage, freedom, happiness
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  • #28
    William Shakespeare
    “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    tags: birthday, happiness, laughter, shakespeare
    1979 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
    tags: demons, happiness, judgement, kronofobi, life, reincarnation, sadness
    2034 likes

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  • #30
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: contentment, goals, happiness, life, satisfaction
    1163 likes



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