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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177045 likes

#2

“The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.”
― Rachel Maddow

tags: coming-out-of-the-closet, commentary, gay, honesty, lesbian, lgbt, msnbc, political, politics, rachel-maddow, truth

505 likes

#3

“The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: inspirational

1966 likes

#4

“Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"

"I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: humor, manners, pooh, tigger

1497 likes

#5

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

786 likes

#6

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

3873 likes

#7

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge

6888 likes

#8

“Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

402 likes

#9

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

4210 likes

#10

“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”
― Jeanette Winterson

175 likes

#11

“She is alone.
And oh
how brilliantly she shines.”
― Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty

tags: poem, poetry

93 likes

#12

“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

tags: intensity, poetry, zeal

1140 likes

#13

“Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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