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    Amélie Wen Zhao
    “You can achieve everything in this world, but if it’s for someone else, it’s pointless. Live for yourself.”
    ― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir
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    Elizabeth Lim
    “Seize the wind," I whispered. "Don't become the kite that never flies.”
    ― Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn
    tags: inspirational, motivational, mulan, spin-the-dawn
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    Angela Carter
    “Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
    ― Angela Carter
    tags: books, reading
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    “If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”
    ― Taylor Swift
    tags: bullying, inspirational
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    “A famous explorer once said, that the extraordinary is in what we do, not who we are. I’d finally set out to make my mark; to find adventure. But instead adventure found me. In our darkest moments, when life flashes before us, we find something; Something that keeps us going. Something that pushes us.”
    ― Lara Croft
    tags: game, lara-croft, tomb-raider
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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    That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent
    “That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.”
    ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    Ai Yazawa
    “Being alone and being lonely are two different things.”
    ― Ai Yazawa
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    Jodi Lynn Anderson
    “Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”
    ― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
    tags: jodi-lynn-anderson, tiger-lily, tinker-bell
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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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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    John Green
    “She loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: mysteries
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    John Green
    “A paper town for a paper girl.”
    ― John Green , Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “Interesting capitalization,' I said.
    'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    Walter Tevis
    “It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.”
    ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit
    tags: beth-harmon, chess, grandmaster, world-champion
    146 likes

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    Michelle Obama
    “Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
    ― Michelle Obama, Becoming
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    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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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
    45219 likes

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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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  • #23
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
    23492 likes



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