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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Rick Yancey
    “When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
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    Tammara Webber
    “Love is not the absence of logic
    but logic examined and recalculated
    heated and curved to fit
    inside the contours of the heart”
    ― Tammara Webber, Easy
    tags: logic, love
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    Ned Vizzini
    “I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: failure, living, moving-on, regrets
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    Ned Vizzini
    “I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
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    Kathryn Stockett
    “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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    Kathryn Stockett
    “All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
    tags: kindness
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    Kathryn Stockett
    “Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again." For a long moment there was only the whirring sound of the tires on the road, and then Sam said softly, "Thank you.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
    tags: grace-sam, pg-208
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them.
    Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness.
    Her raven boys.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “...she made her home in between the pages of books.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
    tags: book-lover, grace
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I am being perfectly fucking civil.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
    tags: ronan-lynch
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: love
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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    William Shakespeare
    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: love
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    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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    William Shakespeare
    “Listen to many, speak to a few.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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  • #25
    I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
    “I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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    Leila Sales
    “That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.”
    ― Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life
    tags: life
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, reading, truth
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Memories are worse than bullets.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    1112 likes



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