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#1

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days

tags: foolishness, inspirational

1306 likes

#2

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, self-determination

5079 likes

#3

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

4014 likes

#4

“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

1683 likes

#5

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

tags: women

8244 likes

#6

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

tags: optimism, pessimism

2215 likes

#7

“If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off”
― Larry the Cable Guy

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#8

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought

7229 likes

#9

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte

2183 likes

#10

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

2277 likes

#11

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

tags: wisdom

3773 likes

#12

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

tags: past

2607 likes

#13

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: insanity, love, marriage

1730 likes

#14

“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise

tags: life, life-lessons

2982 likes

#15

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women

6530 likes

#16

“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
― Isadora Duncan, Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan

2375 likes

#17

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

tags: books

3159 likes

#18

“Joy is the best makeup.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

1843 likes

#19

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

tags: life

2110 likes

#20

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: hope, human-nature

9576 likes

#21

“The time to make up your mind about people, is never.”
― Philip Barry, The Philadelphia Story: A Comedy in Three Acts

tags: the-philadelphia-story, tracy-lord

983 likes

#22

“Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.”
― John Masefield, King Cole

863 likes

#23

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

3102 likes

#24

“He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”
― Machado de Assis, Iaiá Garcia

tags: balance, evil, good

768 likes

#25