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    Nelson Mandela
    “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: forgiveness, inspirational
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    Peter Ustinov
    “Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit.”
    ― Peter Ustinov
    tags: marriage
    210 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
    ― Rumi
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    Erich Fromm
    “Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
    ― Fromm, Eric, The Art of Loving
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    David Foster Wallace
    “The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
    2137 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #8
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
    16267 likes

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  • #9
    Robert Frost
    “The best way out is always through.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: feelings, persistence, problems
    2619 likes

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  • #10
    Mother Teresa
    “Peace begins with a smile..”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling
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  • #11
    Flannery O'Connor
    “I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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  • #13
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.”
    ― Henry W. Longfellow
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  • #14
    Dolly Parton
    “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!”
    ― Dolly Parton
    tags: inspirational
    616 likes

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  • #15
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Besides, every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive it.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
    95 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #17
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
    77748 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: emotion, heartbreak, lost-love, love, parting
    3245 likes

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    Aristotle
    “Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.”
    ― Aristotle
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
    18611 likes

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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
    9134 likes

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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
    tags: love
    3554 likes

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: literature, sunday
    167 likes

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    William Arthur Ward
    “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: gratitude
    238 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Plague
    tags: boredom, habits
    613 likes

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  • #27
    Plato
    “Character is simply habit long continued.”
    ― Plato
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    Thomas Paine
    “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
    ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
    tags: common-sense
    383 likes

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    Walt Whitman
    “Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
    Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
    You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light
    and of every moment of your life”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    215 likes

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  • #30
    Agatha Christie
    “Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

    [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
    143 likes



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