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    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
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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  • #6
    Robert Frost
    “We love the things we love for what they are.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: love, poetry
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    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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  • #9
    Walt Whitman
    “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: poetry
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    Ian Fleming
    “You only live twice:
    Once when you are born
    And once when you look death in the face”
    ― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
    tags: death, haiku, james-bond, philosophy, poetry
    2806 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: poetry
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    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
    ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    tags: censorship, lies, lying, silence, truth
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    Dorothy Allison
    “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
    ― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
    tags: lies, lying, truth
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
    tags: happiness, sadness
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran
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    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    ― August Wilson
    tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength
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    Beryl Markham
    “A map says to you.
    Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
    I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
    ― Beryl Markham
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    James Jones
    “That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
    ― James Jones, From Here to Eternity
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    Mary Gaitskill
    “My ambition was to live like music.”
    ― Mary Gaitskill
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  • #21
    Marilynne Robinson
    “There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
    ― Marilynne Robinson, Home
    tags: faith, inspirational
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
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  • #23
    Beth Lisick
    “The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.”
    ― Beth Lisick
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  • #24
    Ai Qing
    “Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.”
    ― Ai Qing
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  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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  • #26
    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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  • #27
    Danielle Steel
    “Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
    ― Danielle Steel, The Gift
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  • #28
    Dee Brown
    “Nothing lives long
    Only the earth and mountains”
    ― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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  • #29
    Anna Sewell
    “It is good people who make good places.”
    ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
    tags: attitude, genius-loci, goodness, people, places, spirit, warmth, welcoming
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  • #30
    Josephine Tey
    “One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”
    ― Josephine Tey, To Love and Be Wise
    510 likes



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