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  • #1
    “As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.”
    ― Nic Sheff
    tags: ataraxy, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-worth
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  • #2
    “Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    ― Tina Fey
    tags: change, inspirational, self-confidence, self-esteem, trying
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  • #3
    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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  • #4
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
    24269 likes

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  • #5
    John Green
    “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: attraction, beauty, popularity
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  • #6
    Scott Westerfeld
    “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
    tags: beauty, david, uglies, westerfeld
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  • #7
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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  • #8
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You're aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can't be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn't be.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: breaking-up, fixing-things, life, life-and-living, living-life, moving-on, parting-ways, relationships, separation
    1532 likes

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  • #9
    Henry Rollins
    “You don't make me feel like you used to.
    That's why I'm leaving
    That's why people leave each other
    They come to their senses and get selfish again.”
    ― Henry Rollins, See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die
    tags: breaking-up
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  • #10
    Greg Behrendt
    “The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.”
    ― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
    tags: breaking-up, relationships
    366 likes

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  • #11
    Richelle Mead
    “I don't balance you like you need."
    "What the hell does that mean?" he exclaimed.
    My heart ached for him, and I was so sorry for what I'd done...but this was the truth of it all. "The fact that you have to ask says it all. When you find that person...you'll know.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
    tags: breaking-up, true-love
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  • #12
    Adam Thirlwell
    “The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure — and so often, people are unsure — is that breaking up involves persuasion. You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone. And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee.”
    ― Adam Thirlwell, Politics
    tags: breaking-up, love, persuasion, relationshops
    63 likes

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  • #13
    Steven L. Peck
    “It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn’t honest either. This had been building for a long time. Our silences were getting longer. Our arguments more frequent. How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build? No purpose to accomplish? No meaning? No meaning —that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always.”
    ― Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
    tags: breaking-up, dreams, existence, existentialism, love, meaning, relationships
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  • #14
    Randy Pausch
    “Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: experience
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  • #15
    Paulo Coelho
    “Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
    tags: advice, experience, life, variety, wine
    1653 likes

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  • #16
    Lemony Snicket
    “A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
    tags: experience
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  • #17
    Victoria Holt
    “Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
    ― Victoria Holt
    tags: experience, never-regret
    488 likes

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  • #18
    Laurie Faria Stolarz
    “You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.”
    ― Laurie Faria Stolarz, Deadly Little Secret
    tags: experience
    225 likes

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  • #19
    Simone Elkeles
    “Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.”
    ― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise
    tags: experience, inspirational, truth
    177 likes

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  • #20
    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
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  • #21
    Mother Teresa
    “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: happiness
    2525 likes

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  • #22
    Mother Teresa
    “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: paraphrased
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  • #23
    Mother Teresa
    “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: loneliness
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  • #24
    Mother Teresa
    “At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
    We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: activism, service
    1964 likes

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  • #25
    Mother Teresa
    “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: actions, drop, good-works, ocean
    857 likes

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  • #26
    Mother Teresa
    “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: incrementalism
    547 likes

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  • #27
    Mother Teresa
    “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
    ― Mother Teresa, A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations – Private Letters Revealing Her Abiding Faith, Wisdom, and Compassion
    tags: christian-values, compassion, inspirational, kindness
    628 likes

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  • #28
    P.D. James
    “Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.”
    ― P.D. James, The Children of Men
    tags: emotions, experience, feel, pain
    197 likes

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  • #29
    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
    “If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.”
    ― Mikhail S. Gorbachev
    tags: accomplishment, experience
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  • #30
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
    10857 likes



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