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    Jane Austen
    “Dare not say that men forget sooner than women, that his love has an earlier death. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
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    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
    tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words
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    Megan Devine
    “Grief is visceral, not reasonable: the howling at the center of grief is raw and real. It is love in its most wild form.”
    ― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK
    tags: child-loss, death, grief, loss, sadness, suicide, trauma, witness
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    Maya Angelou
    “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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    Megan Devine
    “Grief is not a sign that you’re unwell or unevolved. It’s a sign that love has been part of your life, and that you want love to continue, even here.”
    ― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
    tags: change, grief, life, mourning, reflections-on-life, wisdom
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  • #11
    Max Porter
    “But I care, deeply. I find humans dull except in grief.”
    ― Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
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  • #15
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Ally Carter
    “There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.”
    ― Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
    tags: boredom, faith, fear, greed, joe-solomon, love, motivation, revenge
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    J.K. Rowling
    “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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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: choke, judging
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hope, inspirational
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    Helen Keller
    “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: character
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    Bob Dylan
    “Don't criticize what you can't understand.”
    ― Bob Dylan
    tags: condemnation, criticism, song-lyrics
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  • #31
    Elbert Hubbard
    “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen
    tags: criticism
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    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
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    Paulo Coelho
    “If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: judging, opinions
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: hitler
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  • #40
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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  • #41
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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  • #45
    Sarah Kay
    “Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
    ― Sarah Kay
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  • #48
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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  • #50
    Robert Frost
    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
    ― Robert Frost
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