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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
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    C.G. Jung
    “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: introspection, psychotherapist, secrets, self-awareness, visions
    2992 likes

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  • #5
    Amy Tan
    “Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife
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  • #6
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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  • #7
    Alfred Tennyson
    “I am a part of all that I have met.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson
    tags: attitude, inspirational
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  • #8
    Marcus Valerius Martialis
    “Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
    ― Marcus Valerius Martialis
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  • #9
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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  • #10
    Ben Okri
    “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
    ― Ben Okri
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  • #11
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: attitude, humor, inspirational
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    David Byrne
    “I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?”
    ― David Byrne, How Music Works
    tags: enjoyment, life, meaning, music, ocean, pleasure, sea, stories
    103 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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  • #14
    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: life, travel
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  • #15
    I read; I travel; I become
    “I read; I travel; I become”
    ― Derek Walcott
    tags: read, travel
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    David Mitchell
    “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: inspirational, travel
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  • #17
    Judith Thurman
    “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”
    ― Judith Thurman
    tags: dreamer, explore, travel
    1158 likes

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    Anna Quindlen
    “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, reading, travel
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  • #19
    Harriet Tubman
    “Every great dream begins with a dreamer”
    ― Harriet Tubman
    tags: dream, dreamer
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    “Be so focused on believing that you can that it doesn't matter if anyone says you can't.”
    ― Chris Burkmenn
    tags: believe, chase, dreamer, dreams, encouragement, inspiration, inspire, life, love, motivate, motivation, never-give-up
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  • #21
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: tourism, travel
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  • #22
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60256 likes

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  • #23
    Dany Laferrière
    “People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
    ― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel
    tags: happiness, life
    1050 likes

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  • #24
    Harlan Ellison
    “The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”
    ― Harlan Ellison, Stalking the Nightmare
    tags: writing
    729 likes

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  • #25
    Diane Von Furstenberg
    “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”
    ― Diane Von Furstenberg
    tags: friendship, life, self-love, women
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  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: inspirational, life, que-sera-sera
    1275 likes

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  • #27
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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  • #28
    Chuck Klosterman
    “Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
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  • #29
    Virginia Boecker
    “I'm quiet for a moment, enchanted by the idea of something stealing over you, settling into you, and telling you, with absolute certainty, who you are and what you're meant to do.”
    ― Virginia Boecker, The Witch Hunter
    tags: inspirational
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  • #30
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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