Melanie

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2017‎ (106)
2022‎ (92)
2018‎ (88)
2019‎ (85)
2021‎ (80)
2023‎ (79)

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2016‎ (42)

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challenges‎ (16)
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titanic‎ (2)
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Melanie’s Quotes

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: change, education

6290 likes

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love

tags: death, life

17165 likes

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland

tags: be-yourself, greatness, individuality

2508 likes

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

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