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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    118201 likes

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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64413 likes

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    Amy Tan
    “Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife
    tags: the-kitchen-god-s-wife
    1763 likes

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    Edward Abbey
    “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: truth
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  • #6
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen
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    Lucy Foley
    “In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.”
    ― Lucy Foley, The Book of Lost and Found
    tags: 1920s, epic, family, great-love-stories, inspiration, life-story, lost-and-found, love-story, personal-history, words-to-live-by
    18 likes

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    Ian McEwan
    “I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth
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    Jojo Moyes
    “...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.”
    ― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
    tags: friendship-and-love, heartbreak, life, love
    548 likes

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  • #10
    Jojo Moyes
    “You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.”
    ― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
    915 likes

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  • #11
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hatred, wisdom
    5439 likes

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  • #12
    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: the-kite-runner
    7770 likes

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  • #13
    Natalie Angier
    “We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
    ― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
    1440 likes

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    Charles de Lint
    “The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.”
    ― Charles de Lint, Memory and Dream
    223 likes

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    Anthony Doerr
    “Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
    1475 likes

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  • #16
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities, choices
    50702 likes

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    Charles Bukowski
    “they simply never understand,
    do they,
    that sometimes solitude
    is
    one of the most beautiful
    things
    on earth?”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Charlotte Eriksson
    “I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.”
    ― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
    tags: becoming, character-building, growing-up, heartbreak, learning-by-doing, life, living, love
    185 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
    21453 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
    6790 likes

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  • #21
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
    tags: fantasy, inspirational, writing
    7818 likes

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  • #22
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
    20954 likes

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  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    147223 likes

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  • #24
    Lana Del Rey
    “Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.”
    ― Lana Del Rey
    tags: do-it, life, read-books, role-models, wisely
    309 likes

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  • #25
    “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
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
    164016 likes

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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
    61630 likes

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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
    174562 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31365 likes

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  • #29
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor
    1401 likes

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  • #30
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: drinking
    1312 likes



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