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    Jack London
    “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
    ― Jack London
    tags: days, existence, function, living, mankind, wasting-time
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: humanity, kindness, relationships
    11055 likes

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  • #3
    Candace Bushnell
    “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
    tags: love, relationships
    6312 likes

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    Nicholas Sparks
    “I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
    tags: energy, nicholas-sparks, relationships, the-last-song
    4770 likes

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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
    tags: heart, infidelity, relationships, seasons, summer
    3234 likes

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    Nick Hornby
    “It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
    ― Nick Hornby
    tags: films, music, relationships
    3001 likes

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    Anne Lamott
    “You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
    ― Anne Lamott
    tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth
    1992 likes

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  • #8
    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
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  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
    8469 likes

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    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    ― Tom Bodett
    tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
    7415 likes

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    Stephen King
    “There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: motherhood, mothers
    1376 likes

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    Martha Gellhorn
    “I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
    ― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters
    tags: ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, men, mothers, psychology, relationships, sons, women
    2343 likes

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    Marguerite Duras
    “Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
    ― Marguerite Duras
    tags: mothers
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    Erma Bombeck
    “When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”
    ― Erma Bombeck
    tags: family, humor, mothers
    1166 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: activist, aging, beautiful-personatlity, beautiful-soul, charity, communicators, community, compassion, empathetic, fathers, friendships, givers, giving-heart, helping-out, homeless-tent-community, inner-beauty, inspiration, inspirational, jealousy, judgement, loving, marine-life-conservation, medical-missions, mothers, motivators, openess, outward-beauty, people-of-action, perspectives, philosophy, prayer, real-people, reflection, rescuers, search-and-rescue, service, takers, tender, time, true-beauty, truth, vanity, writing
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    Gail Tsukiyama
    “Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
    ― Gail Tsukiyama, Dreaming Water
    tags: children, family, love, mothers
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  • #20
    “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
    ― David C. Gross, Dictionary of 1000 Jewish Proverbs (Hippocrene Bilingual Proverbs)
    tags: mothers
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  • #21
    Jodi Picoult
    “I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
    tags: children, mothers, people
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams
    tags: mothers
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    Lorna Crozier
    “Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?”
    ― Lorna Crozier, Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir
    tags: grief, mothers
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    Darnell Lamont Walker
    “What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.”
    ― Darnell Lamont Walker
    tags: daughters, men, mothers, pain
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44320 likes

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  • #26
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Lorna Crozier
    “Mom, mom, mom, mom! A yowl rose from my gut, my bowels, my womb, raw as a birth cry but with no hope in it, a maddening howl, a roar, the water a wailing wall shattering around me. Unsyllabled, thoughtless, the cry rose from the oldest cells in my body. I hadn't known grief could be so primal, so crude. The violence shook me. When it stopped, I fell to my knees in the shower, and the water called to the water in me; I wanted to melt, to run down the drain and under the city to the creek and then to the river thirty miles away. Mom, mom, mom, mom!”
    ― Lorna Crozier
    tags: grief, mothers
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    Anita Diamant
    “Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child... There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name the moment.”
    ― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent
    tags: baby, childbirth, giving-birth, having-a-baby, love, maternal-love, mother-s-love, motherhood, mothers, women
    41 likes

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  • #30
    “My mother had a kindness
    that embraced all life.
    She knew her place well
    and was comfortable in giving everything she had.

    This is the tradition of native women.”
    ― Dan George
    tags: elders, freedom, kindness, love, mothers, sharing, wisdom
    9 likes



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