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#1

“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: paraphrased

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#2

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa

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#3

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: paraphrased

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#4

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: loneliness

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#5

“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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#6

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: attributed-no-source

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#7

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#8

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#9

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#10

“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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#11

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#12

“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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#13

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#14

“I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”
― Malala Yousafzai

tags: education, women-s-rights

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#15

“Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words.”
― Barbara Case Speers

tags: paranormal-romance, paranormal-romance-series, paranormal-thriller

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#16

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

tags: goals

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#17

“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.”
― Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta

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#18

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art

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#19

“The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.”
― Malala Yousafzai

tags: education, freedom-of-choice, girl-power, islam, women-s-rights

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#20

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”
― Malala Yousafzai

tags: education, malala, terrorism, women-s-rights

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#21

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: destiny

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#23

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: kissing, love, romance

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#24

“One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: imperfect, imperfection, making-mistakes, mistakes, perfectly-imperfect, universe

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#25

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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#26

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickson

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#27

“Human, you are a machine, an organism, an animal, a primate, an artist, an athlete, a thinker, a sponge, a spirit, a comedian, a connoisseur, a cycle of breath in and breath out, an inventor, an expressor, an orator, a lover, an explorer, a creator, evolved. Your mind paints the flowers and the sky using the mind's eye as a paintbrush and light as paint. Splashing life across the blank canvas of reality. That's what you do. Every moment of every day.”
― Laren Grey Umphlett, The Power of Perception

tags: philosophy

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#28

“..what an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#29

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
― Pablo Picasso

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