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#1

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: attraction, beauty, popularity

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#2

“Steve said, “I don’t know. I really don’t. All I know is that my life is better when I assume that people are doing their best. It keeps me out of judgment and lets me focus on what is, and not what should or could be.” His answer felt like truth to me. Not an easy truth, but truth.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

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#3

“Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

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#4

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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#5

“None of them really wanted to listen to someone else’s story anyway; they only wanted to tell their own.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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#6

“Harold sighs. “Jude,” he says, “there’s not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don’t get to a certain age and it stops.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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#7

“They all—Malcolm with his houses, Willem with his girlfriends, JB with his paints, he with his razors—sought comfort, something that was theirs alone, something to hold off the terrifying largeness, the impossibility, of the world, of the relentlessness of its minutes, its hours, its days.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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#8

“I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

tags: choices, life, love

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#9

“When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can’t just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too. Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

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#10

“That's what you do when you want something. You don't look for reasons why it won't work. You look for reasons why it will.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

tags: inspirational, life

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#11

“Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

tags: destiny, fate, love

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#12

“You don’t need to find the perfect thing all the time. Just find one that works, and go with it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

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#13

“You can only forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in the past once you know you’ll never make them again.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

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#14

“If there are an infinite number of universes, I don’t know how I got so lucky as to end up in this one. Maybe there are other lives for me out there, but I can’t imagine being as happy in any of them as I am right now, today. I have to think that while I may exist in other universes, none is as good as this.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

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#15

“Waarom No Fear? Omdat we allemaal bang zijn. Alle mensen zijn bang. Ergens voor. Voor elkaar, voor onszelf. Bang dat we niet goed genoeg zijn.”
― Francine Oomen, Hoe overleef ik mezelf?

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#16

“Verander de wereld, begin bij jezelf. De oceaan bestaat uit heel veel druppeltjes water die samen het geheel maken.”
― Francine Oomen, Hoe overleef ik alles wat ik niemand vertel?

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#17

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: power-of-words

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#18

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: brain, brains, hope, inner-thoughts, mental-health, mental-illness, thoughts

578 likes

#19

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: imperfect, love

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#20

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

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#21

“I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: humor, inspirational, obvious, stupid

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#22

“What matters to you defines your mattering.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#23

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: inspirational-ship-storms

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#24

“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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#25

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: amy-march, jo-march, longing, lost-love, love, spoil, teddy-lawrence, unrequited-love, waste-of-life

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#26

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: feminism, inspirational, jo-march, life, little-women

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#27

“Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: amy, hurt, mean, meanness

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#28

“I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.”
― Louisa Alcott, Little Women

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#29

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: reading-books

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#30

“Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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