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    Victor Hugo
    “What makes night within us may leave stars.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three
    tags: darkness, growth
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    Tony Samara
    “Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity”
    ― Tony Samara
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    Criss Jami
    “A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: adaptation, anger, attitude, bullied, bully, bullying, confidence, confidence-and-attitude, encouragement, growth, inspirational, introvert, loneliness, motivational, outcast, pain, youth
    276 likes

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    Terra Elan McVoy
    “and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore.”
    ― Terra Elan McVoy, After the Kiss
    tags: friendship, growth, loss, love
    90 likes

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    Antonio Porchia
    “We become aware of the void as we fill it.”
    ― Antonio Porchia
    tags: awareness, emptiness, growth, void
    296 likes

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    Theodore Roethke
    “By daily dying, I have come to be.”
    ― Theodore Roethke, The Collected Poems
    tags: death, growth, poetry
    105 likes

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  • #7
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh
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    Mae West
    “Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.”
    ― Mae West
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    Theodore Parker
    “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
    ― Theodore Parker
    tags: inspirational, justice, mlk
    662 likes

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    Cornel West
    “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
    ― Cornel West
    tags: justice, love, society, wisdom
    655 likes

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    Confucius
    “To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
    ― Confucius, The Analects
    tags: disgrace, honor, justice, society, wealth
    404 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: justice, nationalism, patriotism
    285 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: fairness, goodness, justice
    176 likes

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    Terry Goodkind
    “Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen
    tags: 2000, justice, kahlan-amnell, pity
    140 likes

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    Jane Addams
    “True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”
    ― Jane Addams
    tags: justice, peace
    115 likes

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    Reinhold Niebuhr
    “Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
    ― Reinhold Niebuhr, The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses
    tags: democracy, justice
    95 likes

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    N.K. Jemisin
    “True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Killing Moon
    tags: inspirational, justice, peace
    92 likes

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  • #19
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
    13226 likes

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    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: freedom, truth
    2998 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “Freedom lies in being bold.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: boldness, courage, freedom
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism
    2533 likes

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    Mae West
    “Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
    ― Mae West, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
    tags: bachelorhood, double-entendre, empowerment, freedom, independence, institutions, marriage, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, singles
    1332 likes

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    Mae West
    “I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: inspirational, religious
    1128 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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  • #29
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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  • #30
    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    ― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy
    13806 likes



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