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  • #1
    Donald Miller
    “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
    ― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: human-nature, people, truth
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  • #3
    C. JoyBell C.
    “When I see you, I think "I wonder which face she sees when she looks into the mirror.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: fake-people, fakery, having-many-faces, hypocrisy, hypocrites, more-than-one-face, two-faced, two-faced-people, two-facedness
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  • #4
    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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  • #5
    Santosh Kalwar
    “We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
    tags: addiction, life-lessons, philosophy, thinking, thoughts
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  • #6
    Red Haircrow
    “You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”
    ― Red Haircrow
    tags: life, life-lessons, reality
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    Orson Scott Card
    “No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
    tags: andrew-wiggin, ender, ender-wiggin, life-lessons
    674 likes

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  • #8
    Robin Williams
    “I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
    ― Robin Williams
    tags: life-lessons, wisdom
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  • #9
    Turcois Ominek
    “Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.”
    ― Turcois Ominek
    tags: attitude-toward-life, believe-in-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-lessons, self-love, values, wasting-time
    555 likes

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  • #10
    Jonas Jonasson
    “Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.”
    ― Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
    tags: life-lessons
    369 likes

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  • #11
    Steve Maraboli
    “Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, dependency, fear, life-lessons, self-empowerment, survival
    329 likes

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  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: inspiration, life-lessons
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    Mel Brooks
    “As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.”
    ― Mel Brooks
    tags: life-lessons, mistakes
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  • #14
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait
    tags: life-lessons
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: adversity, failure, future, harvard-commencement-speech, hope, inspirational, life-lessons, rock-bottom
    441 likes

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  • #16
    Shaun Hick
    “You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”
    ― Shaun Hick
    tags: appreciate, appreciate-life, bad-times, cancer, crawling, darkness, good-times, hard-times, holding-on, learning, life, life-lessons, pain, reward, shadows, sickness, struggle, suicide, sun, surviving, test
    580 likes

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  • #17
    Robin Sharma
    “You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about
    yourself.”
    ― Robin S. Sharma
    tags: life-lessons
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  • #18
    Santosh Kalwar
    “I was lost yesterday, I am found today and I will be forgotten tomorrow.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar
    tags: life, life-lessons, sad
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  • #19
    Stephen King
    “There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
    ― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
    tags: life-lessons, moving
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  • #20
    Kris Carr
    “There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.”
    ― Kris Carr, Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It!
    tags: life, life-lessons, love
    460 likes

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  • #21
    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Lexicon
    tags: fear, life-lessons
    440 likes

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  • #22
    Maya Angelou
    “There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #23
    Alice Bag
    “What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.”
    ― Alice Bag, Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story
    tags: life, life-lessons, mistakes, philosophy
    336 likes



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