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#1

“Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
― Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild

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#2

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

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#3

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#5

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#6

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

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#7

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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#8

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

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#9

“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
― Shusaku Endo

tags: weakness

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#10

“Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

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#11

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey

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#12

“The dead live."
"How do they live?"
"By love.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

tags: dead, love

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#13

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#14

“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

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#15

“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
― Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

tags: inspirational

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#16

“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

tags: solitude

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#17

“Όμοια ανηφορικοί κι αντρίκιοι κι οι δυο δρόμοι, και μπορούν να φέρουν κι οι δυο στην κορυφή. Να ενεργείς σα να μην υπήρχε θάνατος και να ενεργείς έχοντας στο νου σου κάθε στιγμή το θάνατο, είναι, ίσως, ένα' μα τότε, όταν με ρώτησε ο Ζορμπάς, δεν το'ξερα.”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, Zorba the Greek

tags: δρόμος, επιλογές, ζωή, θάνατος

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#18

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

tags: interests, personality, values

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#19

“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
― René Char

tags: resistance, words

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#20

“When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
― Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

tags: lost-love, love

1779 likes

#21

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
― Mercedes Lackey

tags: humor

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#22

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#23

“Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.”
― Robert James Waller

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