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  • #1
    “You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.”
    ― Julien Smith, The Flinch
    tags: actions, choices, choosing, confidence, feelings, flinch, habits, optimism, positive
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    Steven Tyler
    “Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.”
    ― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?
    tags: insightful, inspirational-attitude
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  • #3
    “Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.”
    ― Julien Smith, The Flinch
    tags: actions, behavior, habits, natural, normal, norms
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  • #4
    José Ortega y Gasset
    “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
    ― José Ortega y Gasset
    tags: interests, personality, values
    1932 likes

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  • #5
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: priorities
    662 likes

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  • #6
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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  • #7
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: life
    2916 likes

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  • #8
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
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  • #9
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: priorities
    79 likes

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  • #10
    John Burroughs
    “One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”
    ― John Burroughs
    tags: character, hope, motivational
    614 likes

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  • #11
    Joyce Meyer
    “Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
    ― Joyce Meyer
    tags: character, conscience, duty
    503 likes

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  • #12
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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  • #13
    Sophocles
    “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: change, character, course, crime, failure, mistakes, pride, yield
    1238 likes

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  • #14
    Richard Bach
    “You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”
    ― Richard Bach
    tags: accomplishment, character, dream
    172 likes

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  • #15
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: character, emerson, intellect
    115 likes

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  • #16
    Sherry Argov
    “Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.”
    ― Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
    tags: attitude, character, independence, strong-woman
    501 likes

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  • #18
    Cornel West
    “We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”
    ― Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
    tags: commitment, loyalty, relationships
    1020 likes

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  • #19
    Steve Hall
    “The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”
    ― Steve Hall
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  • #20
    Victoria Michaels
    “While she was light and sunshine, he was nothing but clouds and darkness.”
    ― Victoria Michaels, Trust in Advertising
    82 likes

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  • #21
    Hubert L. Dreyfus
    “the internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment”
    ― Hubert Dreyfus
    tags: commitment, internet
    15 likes

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  • #22
    Alexandra Potter
    “If you want a man who's commited, go look in a mental hospital.”
    ― Alexandra Potter, Do You Come Here Often?
    tags: commitment, humour, men
    16 likes

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  • #24
    “To be too knowing is a downfall.”
    ― Laura Linney
    tags: acting, character, charlie-rose-show, choices, knowledge
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  • #25
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: character, heart, service, words
    21 likes

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  • #27
    Everett Dirksen
    “When I feel the heat, I see the light.”
    ― Everett Dirksen
    tags: dual-meaning, governments, heat, light, optimisim, problems, troubles
    20 likes

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  • #29
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.”
    ― Somerset Maugham
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  • #30
    Ray A. Davis
    “A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.”
    ― Ray A. Davis
    tags: challenges, inspiration, motivation, overcoming
    116 likes

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  • #31
    Paulo Coelho
    “Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Maktub
    tags: life-lessons
    1092 likes

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  • #32
    Rudyard Kipling
    “I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: life-lessons, outlook
    778 likes

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  • #33
    “We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.”
    ― Jack Johnson
    tags: happiness, jack-johnson, life-lessons
    130 likes

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  • #34
    Red Haircrow
    “You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”
    ― Red Haircrow
    tags: life, life-lessons, reality
    1024 likes



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