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    Ned Vizzini
    “I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: failure, living, moving-on, regrets
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game
    tags: regrets, scars, wounds
    604 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: attitude, awareness, disorders, dreams, enlightenment, faults, focus, forgetting, future, goals, here, here-and-now, identity, issues, journeys, letting-go, life, life-lessons, living, memories, mental-illness, now, pain, past, planning, present, present-moment, realism, regrets, sanity, self-awareness, unresolved
    249 likes

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    Mark Vonnegut
    “It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.”
    ― Mark Vonnegut, The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
    tags: crazy, insanity, memories, pain, regrets
    86 likes

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  • #6
    “In life, I regret the things I didn't do far more than the missteps I made along the way.”
    ― David Stanley
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    Shannon A. Thompson
    “I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.”
    ― Shannon A. Thompson, Death Before Daylight
    tags: future, future-plans, moving-forward, past, regrets
    27 likes

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  • #8
    Edith Wharton
    “She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”
    ― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
    tags: drama
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    John Milton
    “I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”
    ― John Milton
    tags: hinesty, integrity, patience, suffering, wisdom
    368 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
    than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all
    connected with you.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: altruism, love, patience
    333 likes

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  • #11
    Hal Borland
    “Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
    ― Hal Borland
    tags: patience, persistence
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  • #12
    Rudyard Kipling
    “We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed
    tags: humanity, isolation, lies, loneliness, misunderstanding
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    Jane Austen
    “There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
    "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
    "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: character, defects, dislike, education, hatred, misunderstanding, propensity, repartee, retort, wit
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    Ben Marcus
    “To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.”
    ― Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
    tags: misunderstanding, storytelling
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest
    tags: little-things, misunderstanding
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
    tags: l-m-montgomery, misunderstanding
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  • #17
    “We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: communicate, communication, control, convey, dialogue, doors, exchange, ideas, ignorance, intellect, interpret, interpretation, language, meaning, misinterpretated, misinterpretation, misunderstand, misunderstanding, peace, power, power-of-words, reading, right-word, sentence, speaking, suzy-kassem, talking, thinking, thought, tones, translation, underestimate, understand, understanding, war, wars, word, words, writing
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “The person you love has all kinds of seeds in her: joy, suffering, and anger. If you water her anger, then in just five minutes you can bring the anger out in her. If you know how to water the seeds of her compassion, joy, and understanding, then these seeds will blossom. If you recognize the good seeds in her, you are watering her self-confidence and she will become the source of her own happiness as well as yours.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
    tags: affair, breakup, divorce, family, love, misunderstanding, relationships
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  • #19
    “When the roots of Friendship are deep, there is no reason to fear Misunderstanding and lack of Communication.”
    ― Shahid Iqbal
    tags: communication, friendship, misunderstanding
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    Jim Carrey
    “Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”
    ― Jim Carrey
    tags: 2014, 7-7, 77, acceptance, actor, actors, address, allow, be-you, be-yourself, commencement-address, commencement-speech, famous-people, glory, graduate, graduation, hide, hiding, inspirational, inspiring, jim-carey, jim-carrey, light, maharishi, maharishi-university, mum, pleaser, pleasing, pleasing-others, risk, shine, shine-bright, shine-on, shine-your-light
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “People who allow their situations and other people to change who they are each die having been many people.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: be-you, be-yourself, change-who-they-are, change-who-you-are, know-thyself, know-yourself, life-situations, never-change, pleasing-others, situations
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    Ann Voskamp
    “Sometimes you aren’t listening to your body because you’re listening to everybody else’s expectations.”
    ― Ann Voskamp
    tags: body, expectations, expectations-of-people, expectations-quotes, listening-to-you, listening-to-your-gut, listening-to-yourself, other-people-s-expectations, people-pleasing, pleasing-others
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  • #23
    “Never seek to please anyone. Seek to evolve thyself.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
    tags: choice-quotes, courage-quotes, dare-to-be-excellent, dare-to-win, daring-quotes, decision-quotes, despair, despair-and-attitude, educational-philosophy, educational-quotes, evolve, faith-quotes, faith-strength, fearless-quotes, inner-strength-quotes, pleasing-others, positive-quotes, seeker-of-fate, seeking-approval, self-empowerment-quotes, self-esteem-quotes, self-motivation-quotes, strength-through-adversity, winners-and-losers, winning-mentality, wisdom-quotes, wise-words, your-destiny, your-journey
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  • #24
    “If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself”
    ― Jocelyn Murray
    tags: pleasing-others, true-to-self, truth
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    Reshma Saujani
    “We've become conditioned to compromise and shrink ourselves in order to be liked. The problem is, when you work so hard to get everyone to like you, you very often end up not liking yourself so much.”
    ― Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder
    tags: people-pleasing, self-confidence
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    Vironika Tugaleva
    “If you find yourself craving approval, you are low on self-love. Stop grasping for a few scraps wherever you can. Go home and make yourself a feast. Love yourself deeply today.”
    ― Vironika Tugaleva
    tags: approval, approval-seeking, love-yourself, people-pleasing, self-love
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    Joyce Rachelle
    “If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.”
    ― Joyce Rachelle
    tags: discussion, displeasing, displeasure, introvert, introvertedness, introvertverts, memories, memory, precious, privacy, private, secret, secretive, secrets, share, sharing, sharing-secrets, talk, talking, unpleasant
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    Mitch Albom
    “Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
    tags: dissatisfaction, faith, happiness, mitch-albom, satisfaction
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “It is impossible to count your blessings while you are counting the things with which you need or want to be blessed.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: blessing, blessings, count-your-blessings, dissatisfaction, dissatisfied, gratitude, happiness, satisfaction, satisfied, unhappiness
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  • #31
    Carlos Wallace
    “Focus on patience, loyalty, intelligence, greed, dissatisfaction and pride.”
    ― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
    tags: carlos-wallace, disappointment, dissatisfaction, golden-goose, greed, greed-of-man, greed-quotes, loyal, loyalty, loyalty-and-disloyalty, loyalty-quotes, patience, patience-and-timing, patience-quotes, pride, pride-quotes
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  • #32
    “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you

    [Matthew 7:1-2]”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
    tags: bible-verse, judge, judgemental, scripture
    463 likes



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