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    Brian Rathbone
    “Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”
    ― Brian Rathbone, Regent
    tags: aging, life-experience, life-lessons, wisdom
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: adventure, adventures, adventures-in-love, catholic-author, discovery, experiences, first-love, life, life-changing, life-experience, life-lesson, love, romance, romantic, self-discovery, true-love
    476 likes

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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: beautiful, beauty, belief, belief-quotes, destiny, happiness, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life, life-and-living, life-experience, living, spirit, truth
    300 likes

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    Tim Tharp
    “Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.”
    ― Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now
    tags: life-experience, life-quotes
    301 likes

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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: growing-older, life-experience
    575 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, life-experience
    556 likes

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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night
    tags: life, life-experience
    624 likes

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    “The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.”
    ― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
    tags: enrie, john-smith, life-experience, memory
    590 likes

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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
    562 likes

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    Stephen King
    “A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life-experience, writing, writing-craft
    1728 likes

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    C.G. Jung
    “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: life-experience
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination
    1677 likes

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    William Faulkner
    “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
    ― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms
    tags: life-experience, poetry, sorrow
    1284 likes

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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
    tags: life, life-experience
    497 likes

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    Kellie Elmore
    “Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.”
    ― Kellie Elmore
    tags: inspirational-life, life-and-living, life-experience, life-lessons, motivational-quotes
    223 likes

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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    tags: life-experience, wisdom
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    Tess Callahan
    “All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green.”
    ― Tess Callahan
    tags: change, life-experience
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    W.H. Auden
    “I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.”
    ― W.H. Auden, Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations
    tags: esteem, inspirational, life-experience, self-awareness, self-esteem
    122 likes

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    Jennifer Egan
    “I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
    tags: life-experience
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    Scott Lynch
    “Advice," Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.”
    ― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
    tags: life-experience, wisdom
    111 likes

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    Carrie Ryan
    “Sometimes it’s the mistakes that turn out to be the
    best parts of life,”
    ― Carrie Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves
    tags: laine-s-fave, life-experience
    64 likes

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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams
    tags: anita-blake, life-experience, philosophy, wisdom
    56 likes

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    Bohdi Sanders
    “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.”
    ― Bohdi Sanders, The Secrets of Worldly Wisdom: Your Key to Unlocking Success
    tags: best-books, excellence, good-books, happin, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life, life-and-living, life-experience, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, motivation, motivational-quotes, wisdom
    331 likes

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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
    tags: inspirational, life-experience, self-development
    365 likes

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  • #25
    “One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn't matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think.”
    ― Rebecca McKinsey, Anterria
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: assumptions, bias, brainwashed, coheresed, critics, guessing, judging, life-experience, life-experiences, limited-knowledge, limited-perspective, not-enough-information, not-knowing, opinions, pressured, upbringing, view
    136 likes

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    Robertson Davies
    “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
    ― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
    tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality
    1060 likes

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    Kathryn Stockett
    “All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
    tags: bias, environment, taught-to-hate
    264 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: accusation, assumption, bias, blame, extroversion, extroverts, fear, guilt, innocence, introversion, introverts, judgment, judgmental, judgmentality, people, skepticism, social-norms, society, unconscious-mind
    302 likes

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    Anne Frank
    “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: growing-up, innocence, inspirational, parenting, personal-responsibility, right-of-passage, self-determination, self-responsibility
    2801 likes



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