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Bil Keane
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane
tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: paraphrased, strength
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Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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Oscar Wilde
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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D.H. Lawrence
“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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