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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    176994 likes

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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    ― Herbert Bayard Swope
    tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success
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    “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
    ― Nicholas Klein
    tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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    George Carlin
    “Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
    ― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
    tags: crazy, men, stupid, truth, women
    7638 likes

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  • #16
    “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
    ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
    tags: hope, inspiration, inspirational, life, truth
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
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    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom
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    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    ― Colette
    tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
    If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: goal, goals, gratitude, happiness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leadership, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: future, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, limit, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, potential
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  • #26
    “[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”
    ― Jenny O'Connell, The Book of Luke
    tags: honesty, life, life-lessons, love
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: excuse, improvement, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, respect
    4895 likes

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  • #28
    Robert Frost
    “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: love
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    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    ― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Rollo May
    “It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
    ― Rollo May
    tags: philosophy
    1589 likes



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