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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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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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  • #3
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #4
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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  • #5
    Victor Hugo
    “He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: les-miserables-books
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  • #6
    Victor Hugo
    “Morality is truth in full bloom.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: les-miserables
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  • #7
    Victor Hugo
    “It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
    tags: contentment, inspirational
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  • #8
    “Do you hear the people sing?
    Singing a song of angry men?
    It is the music of a people
    Who will not be slaves again!
    When the beating of your heart
    Echoes the beating of the drums
    There is a life about to start
    When tomorrow comes!”
    ― Do You Hear the People Sing Les Miserables
    tags: inspirational, les-miserables, musical
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  • #9
    Victor Hugo
    “The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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  • #10
    Victor Hugo
    “You are never fully dressed until you put on a smile!”
    ― Les Miserables
    tags: les-miserables, smile
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  • #11
    Victor Hugo
    “What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears?”
    ― Les Miserables
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  • #12
    Victor Hugo
    “Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions.
    Les Miserables, page 674”
    ― Victor Hugo
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  • #13
    Victor Hugo
    “Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known.”
    ― Les Miserables
    tags: feelings, hiding, inspirational, secretive
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  • #14
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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  • #15
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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  • #18
    Chuck Klosterman
    “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
    tags: art, love, profound
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  • #19
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art, inspirational
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  • #20
    C. JoyBell C.
    “The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: freedom, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, society, unhappiness, unhappy-life
    2461 likes

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  • #21
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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  • #22
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss
    tags: depression, pain, trauma
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  • #23
    Misty Dawn Seidel
    “Having your head in the clouds is not a bad thing... as long as you take advantage of the inspiration you find while you're there.”
    ― Misty Dawn Seidel, Dreams on Paper
    tags: clouds, head-in-the-clouds, inspiration, inspirational-quotes
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  • #24
    “Complains are like the clouds that give no rain no matter how thick they gather.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
    tags: cloud, clouds, complain, complaining, complains, don-t-complain, food-for-thought, gather, israelmore-ayivor, rain, thick
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  • #25
    “Different cities visit us daily, they exist in the clouds.”
    ― Antonia Perdu
    tags: cities, clouds, dreaming
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  • #26
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
    tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset
    5317 likes



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