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    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth
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  • #2
    “Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.”
    ― Michael Simkins, Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education
    tags: paris, traveling
    67 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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  • #4
    Ann Brashares
    “Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”
    ― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
    tags: agape, family, life, love, unconditional-love
    1295 likes

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  • #5
    David Nicholls
    “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
    tags: hope, love
    2501 likes

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  • #6
    “A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”
    ― Dave Matthews Band
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  • #7
    Stephanie Perkins
    “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: home, lover, person
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  • #8
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
    4571 likes

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  • #9
    Herman Wouk
    “When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”
    ― Herman Wouk
    tags: danger, humor
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  • #10
    “I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
    ― Tim Daly
    tags: adventure, challenge, danger, excitement, self, skiing, sports
    194 likes

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  • #11
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”
    ― Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
    tags: courage, cynical, danger, life
    176 likes

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  • #12
    Francesca Lia Block
    “Love is a dangerous angel.”
    ― Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat
    tags: angels, danger, love
    143 likes

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  • #13
    Veronica Roth
    “I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: danger, facts
    59 likes

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  • #14
    George Bernard Shaw
    “There is always danger for those who are afraid.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: danger, fear
    87 likes

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  • #15
    Nick Lake
    “When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them. Or you fill them up with sadness, and they destroy themselves. Or you fill them up with justice, and they try to destroy everything that's bad and cruel in this world. Me, I was the first kind of person.”
    ― Nick Lake, In Darkness
    tags: destruction, hate
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  • #16
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
    13229 likes

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  • #17
    “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
    ― Lady Gaga
    tags: love, romance, work
    9661 likes

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  • #18
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, time
    5297 likes

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  • #19
    Lang Leav
    “Do you know what it is like,
    to lie in bed awake;
    with thoughts to haunt
    you every night,
    of all your past mistakes.

    Knowing sleep will set it right -
    if you were not to wake.”
    ― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
    tags: lang-leav, mistakes, peace, regret, sadness, sleep
    337 likes

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  • #20
    Rupi Kaur
    “Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
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  • #21
    Rupi Kaur
    “I didn't leave because
    I stopped loving you,
    I left because the longer
    I stayed the less I loved myself.”
    ― Rupi Kaur
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  • #22
    Rupi Kaur
    “i am a museum full of art
    but you had your eyes shut”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
    tags: art, eyes, love, museum
    1136 likes

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  • #23
    Rupi Kaur
    “if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
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  • #24
    Rupi Kaur
    “The kindest words my father said to me
    Women like you drown oceans.”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
    700 likes

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  • #25
    Rupi Kaur
    “i am water

    soft enough
    to offer life
    tough enough
    to drown it away”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
    tags: cis-women, non-cis-women, strength, women
    668 likes

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  • #26
    Rupi Kaur
    “The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying.”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
    426 likes

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  • #27
    Rupi Kaur
    “my heart woke me crying last night
    how can i help i begged
    my heart said
    write the book”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
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  • #28
    Rupi Kaur
    “you look at me and cry
    everything hurts

    i hold you and whisper
    but everything can heal”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
    tags: healing, mental-health
    203 likes

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  • #29
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
    5274 likes

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  • #30
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    5518 likes



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