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    Suzanne Collins
    “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
    tags: peeta
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    David Sedaris
    “If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
    ― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
    tags: sympathy
    6313 likes

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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
    10107 likes

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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational-faith
    7626 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
    9429 likes

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    Joan Crawford
    “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
    ― Joan Crawford
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    Maya Angelou
    “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination
    7164 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
    tags: activism
    8932 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: sleep
    9538 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “Being crazy isn't enough.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window
    tags: humor-cats-allergies
    4300 likes

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Augusten Burroughs
    “I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs
    tags: flaws, individuality
    4250 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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    Paulo Coelho
    “When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
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    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
    tags: calming, reassuring, true
    2339 likes

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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: life
    800 likes

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    Sarah Dessen
    “the truth about forever is that it is happening right now”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Jay Asher
    “You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
    tags: live-in-the-moment
    1492 likes

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    John Steinbeck
    “I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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    Rick Riordan
    “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: love
    5618 likes

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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: moi
    6638 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: suess
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    Caroline Stevermer
    “How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.”
    ― Caroline Stevermer, Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
    tags: chess, chocolate-pot, confusion, games, rules
    171 likes

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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Tom Hiddleston
    “Every villain is a hero in his own mind.”
    ― Tom Hiddleston
    tags: actor, awesome, different, hero, hiddleston, inspiring, loki, odd, thought-provoking, tom, true, villan, wonderful
    1221 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69844 likes



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