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  • #1
    Margaret Mead
    “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #2
    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #3
    Henry David Thoreau
    “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #4
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #7
    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
    Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

  • #8
    Marilyn Monroe
    “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #9
    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #10
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #11
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #14
    Mario Andretti
    “If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.”
    Mario Andretti

  • #15
    John Lennon
    “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
    John Lennon

  • #16
    Billy Joel
    “I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.”
    Billy Joel

  • #17
    Billy Joel
    “you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for”
    Billy Joel

  • #18
    “I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.”
    Lady Gaga

  • #19
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #20
    Mary Karr
    “A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
    Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

  • #21
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
    Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

  • #22
    William Shakespeare
    “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.”
    William Shakespeare, Macbeth

  • #23
    William Faulkner
    “Wonder. Go on and wonder.”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

  • #24
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

  • #25
    William Faulkner
    “Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

  • #26
    Assunta Harris
    “You're a survivor because every day you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness”
    Assunta Harris, A Sheep Amongst Wolves

  • #27
    Assunta Harris
    “Overcoming abuse doesn't just happen, It takes positive steps everyday. Let today be the day you start to move forward.”
    Assunta Harris, A Sheep Amongst Wolves



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