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#1

“Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.”
― Cassandra Duffy

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#2

“... We're just different."
"Yeah," I say. "I'm mute and you have verbal diarrhea.”
― Janet Gurtler, I'm Not Her

tags: personalities, sisters

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#3

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased

22706 likes

#4

“No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: a-beautiful-beginning, a-new-beginning, endings, endings-and-beginnings, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, new-beginnings, the-end

714 likes

#5

“Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: mediocrity, stupidity

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#6

“Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.”
― Thisuri Wanniarachchi

tags: adversity, happiness, hard-times, inspirational, life

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#7

“If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those who dwell on the rocks carrying nets will try to reel you into their catch. The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: advice, envy, inspirational-quotes, jealousy, mermaid, self-awareness, self-knowledge, siren, the-nature-of-envy, warnings, wisdom-quotes

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#8

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

tags: compassion, empathy, loneliness, love

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#9

“You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

tags: friends, judgement

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#10

“When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.”
― S.N. Goenka

tags: judgement, truth

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#11

“Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?”
― John Wesley

tags: caring, christianity, clothing, compassion, evangelism, faithfulness, fatherless, feed, finances, giving, help, hungry, money, naked, necessities, needs, orphan, possessions, sharing, stealing, stewardship, strangers, tithe, wants, widow

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#12

“Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn.”
― Mike Norton

tags: afraid, beethoven, confidence, correct, fear, incorrect, learn, mastery, note, right, student, wrong

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#13

“While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: be-kind, building-people-up, commandments, communicate, conflict, dogma, end-it-with-talking, facebook, forgive, god, gospel, hidden-agendas, insecure, jilted, love-everyone, low-self-esteem, making-a-point, mental-illness, move-on, neighbors, novels, obviousness, out-there, over-the-top, piety, pious, practice-what-you-preach, preaching, privacy, problems, reach-out, relationships, relentless, religion, religions, ridiculous, rules, self-righteousness, silly, slighted, talk, tearing-people-down, upfront, worthless

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#14

“I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

tags: blorft, grammar-humor, humor, stress

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#15

“If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: decency, decent, dignity, directive, diretion, don-t-lie, don-t-tell-lies, fame, food-for-thought, honesty, honour, identity, insecure, insecurity, integrity, israelmore-ayivor, kinds, kinds-of, liar, lie, lose, lost, modest, modesty, obey, pride, priority, secure, security, sense, sensitive, sensitivity, tell-the-truth, truth, truthful, weather

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#16

“The problem with people that ignore people they dislike is they can’t ignore them. Anger carries a person in your mind forever, whether you choose to speak to them or not. Therefore, don’t mistake prosperity or accomplishments as resolution. You can’t escape what you will not deal with. The day you can stand in the room with someone and not be affected is the day you truly moved on.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#17

“That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
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― Robin Hobb, Ship of Destiny

tags: challenge, life, pity

113 likes

#18

“You're short on ears and long on mouth.”
― John Wayne

tags: listening

252 likes

#19

“It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.”
― Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, The Dirty Girls Social Club

tags: intelligence, smart

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#20

“You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!”
― Jason Mraz

tags: happy, music, pop, shine, sunny

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#21

“Think about the word mould for a moment. A mould is a device into which one crams and smashes something until it becomes the shape that they desire. Don't spend your life letting other people destroy you while they try and force you into their moulds.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

tags: authenticity, being-yourself, conformity, judging-others, loving-yourself, mould

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#22

“When someone is pretending to be something, or hiding who they are or what they believe, they're really more...protecting themselves.”
― Kelsey Sutton, Some Quiet Place

tags: pretending

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#23

“Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, My Point... And I Do Have One

tags: lyrics, music, singing, wrong-lyrics

684 likes

#24

“Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.”
― Len Deighton

tags: humor, mistakes, silliness

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#25

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

12074 likes

#26

“I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.”
― Ron White

tags: lemons, life, party

351 likes

#27

“I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. We all get cranky, or impatient, or worried, or careless enough to do or say things that hurt someone else. Like it or not, that's normal. We can't blame it all on Olympia's bad energy. The important part is that we feel sorry about what we've done and make up for it. That's something Olympia never did.”
― Jean Ferris, Twice Upon a Marigold

tags: bad, energy, life

59 likes

#28

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: future, happiness, space

1324 likes

#30

“Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: delusions, escape, family, friendships, insanity, love, relationships

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#31

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, forgiveness, god

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