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#1

“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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#2

“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

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#3

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#4

“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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#5

“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: integrity, self-actualization, self-determination

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#6

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

tags: inspirational

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#7

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

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#8

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

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#9

“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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#10

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness

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#11

“To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

tags: happiness, stupidity

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#12

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: happiness, life

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#13

“You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway”
― Walt Disney Company

tags: childrens-literature

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#14

“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”
― Walt Disney

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#15

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way

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#16

“All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.”
― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

tags: identity, individuality

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#17

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: family, individuality, live-in-the-here-and-now, live-in-the-moment, present-moment, self-determination

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#18

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
― John Maxwell

tags: leadership

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#19

“The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation.
Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or
whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what?
After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation
comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.”
― John C. Maxwell

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#20

“We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.”
― John C. Maxwell

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#21

“Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.”
― Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal

tags: compulsive-liars, deceit, liar, lies, pathological-liars, trust

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#22

“When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!”
― Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal

tags: compulsive-liars, deceit, infidelity, liar, lies, pathological-liars, trust

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#23

“...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

tags: childhood, exploration

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#24

“We were like astronauts floating through a starless universe.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#25

“What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

tags: belief, choices, destiny

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#26

“Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

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#27

“Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, anger, change, grudges, inspirational, life, living-in-the-present, motivational, poison, resentment, seize-the-day, soul, success

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#28

“Some wounds run too deep for the healing.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: grudges, wounds

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#29

“They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

tags: grudges

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#30

“In the room full of individuals for whom I hold feelings of resentment about,
Who might be the first I would converse with, when I am about to bite the dust?”
― Nishikant, The Papery Onions

tags: death, death-and-dying, grudges, life, love, the-papery-onions, thepaperyonions

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