Top 1001 Quotes Of All Time

• “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

  Attributed No Source, Best, Life, Love, Mistakes, Out Of Control, Truth, Worst

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• “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

  Oscar Wilde

  Attributed No Source, Be Yourself, Honesty, Inspirational, Misattributed Oscar Wilde

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• “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

  Albert Einstein

  Attributed No Source, Human Nature, Humor, Infinity, Philosophy, Science, Stupidity, Universe

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• “So many books, so little time.”

  Frank Zappa

  Books, Humor

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• “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Attributed No Source, Books, Simile, Soul

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• “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

  Mae West

  Humor, Life

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• “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Action, Change, Inspirational, Philosophy, Wish

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• “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

  Robert Frost

  Life

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• “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

  J.K. Rowling

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• “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend”

  Albert Camus

  Attributed No Source, Friends, Friendship, Misattributed Albert Camus

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• “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Confidence, Inspirational, Wisdom

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• “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

  Mark Twain

  Lies, Lying, Memory, Truth

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• “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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• “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

  Elbert Hubbard

  Friend, Friendship, Knowledge, Love

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• “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

  Oscar Wilde

  Attributed No Source, Enemies, Forgiveness, Strategy

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• “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

  Oscar Wilde

  Life

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• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Carpe Diem, Education, Inspirational, Learning

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• “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  Darkness, Drive Out, Hate, Inspirational, Light, Love, Peace

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• “Without music, life would be a mistake.”

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Music, Philosophy

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• “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

  Oscar Wilde

  Intelligence, Self Deprecation

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• “We accept the love we think we deserve.”

  Stephen Chbosky

  Inspirational, Love

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• “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Accomplishment, Attributed No Source, Be Yourself, Conformity, Individuality

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• “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

  Marilyn Monroe

  Attributed No Source, Misattributed Marilyn Monroe

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• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

  H. Jackson Brown Jr.

  Actions, Disappointed, Disappointment, Dream, Dreams, Explore, Misattributed Mark Twain, Sail

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• “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.”

  Bob Marley

  Love

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• “All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king.”

  J.R.R. Tolkien

  Frost, Glitter, Gold, Lost, Poetry, Roots, Strength, Strong, Wander, Wither

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• “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

  J.K. Rowling

  Abilities, Choices

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• “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

  Jane Austen

  Aliteracy, Books, Classic, Humor

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• “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

  Marilyn Monroe

  Attributed No Source, Be Yourself, Inspirational

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• “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

  Albert Einstein

  Attributed No Source, Inspirational, Life, Live, Miracle, Miracles

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• “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

  J.K. Rowling

  Dreams, Life

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• “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

  Mark Twain

  Books, Contentment, Friends, Friendship, Life

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• “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

  John Green

  Love

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• “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”

  Maurice Switzer

  Misattributed To Abraham Lincoln, Misattributed To Mark Twain, Remaining Silent, Wisdom

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• “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Optimism, Perception, Pessimism

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• “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom

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• “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

  Neil Gaiman

  Books, Dragons, Fairy Tales, Inspirational, Paraphrasing G K Chesterton

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• “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”

  Mark Twain

  Individuality, Majority, Minority, Pause, Reflect, Wisdom

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• “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

  Thomas A. Edison

  Edison, Failure, Inspirational, Paraphrased

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• “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Attributed No Source, Misattributed Eleanor Roosevelt

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• “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

  Elie Wiesel

  Activism, Apathy, Hate, Indifference, Inspirational, Love, Opposite, Philosophy

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• “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Lack Of Friendship, Lack Of Love, Love, Marriage, Unhappy Marriage

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• “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

  Mark Twain

  Aliteracy, Attributed No Source, Literacy

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• “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

  J.K. Rowling

  Mischief

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• “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Poetry

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• “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

  Groucho Marx

  Animals, Books, Dogs, Friends, Humor

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• “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

  Albert Einstein

  1929, Imagination, Inspirational, Viereck Interview

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• “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

  William Shakespeare

  Do Wrong, Love, Trust, Wrong

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• “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”

  Neil Gaiman

  Love

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• “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”

  Steve Martin

  Humor, Obvious, Simile

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• “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Procrastination

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• “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Paraphrased, Strength

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• “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Source Unknown

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• “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness

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• “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

  J.K. Rowling

  Courage, Friends

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• “This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”

  Marilyn Monroe

  Attributed No Source, Friends, Heartbreak, Inspirational, Life, Love, Sisters

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• “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

  Douglas Adams

  Deadlines, Humor, Humour, Work, Writing

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• “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

  Sarah Dessen

  Love

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• “My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”

  John Green

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• “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

  Albert Einstein

  Attributed No Source, Simplicity, Understand

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• “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lies, Lying, Trust

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• “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Essential, Happiness, Love

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• “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

  Maya Angelou

  1970, Inspirational, Stories, Writing

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• “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”

  Garrison Keillor

  Humor, Religion

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• “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Books, Library

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• “Everything you can imagine is real.”

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Imagination, Inspirational, Life

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• “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

  Haruki Murakami

  Books, Thought

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• “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Cats, Humor, Women

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• “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

  Anaïs Nin

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• “You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”

  Bob Marley

  Love

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• “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

  Lemony Snicket

  Books, Reading

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• “You love me. Real or not real?"I tell him, "Real.”

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Love, Peeta, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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• “We read to know we're not alone.”

  William Nicholson

  Misattributed To C S Lewis, Reading

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• “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

  John Green

  Books, Power Of Words, Reading

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• “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”

  Charles M. Schulz

  Chocolate, Food, Humor

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• “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

  J.K. Rowling

  Dumbledore

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• “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

  Humor

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• “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”

  J.K. Rowling

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• “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Yourself

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• “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

  J.K. Rowling

  Death, Inspirational

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• “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

  Woody Allen

  Death, Fear, Humor, Life

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• “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

  Oscar Wilde

  Books, Reading

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• “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

  Albert Einstein

  Attributed No Source, Children, Fairy Tales

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• “Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland.""Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”

  Cassandra Clare

  City Of Bones, Jace

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• “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

  Albert Einstein

  Attributed No Source, Imagination

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• “I'm in love with you," he said quietly."Augustus," I said."I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”

  John Green

  Doomed, Inevitable, Love, Oblivion, Pleasure, Simple

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• “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love

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• “Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.”

  Markus Zusak

  Beauty, Life

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• “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”

  John Green

  Satisfaction, Self Determination

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• “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”

  Bob Marley

  Friendship

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• “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

  Abraham Lincoln

  Attributed No Source, Happiness

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• “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

  William Shakespeare

  Love

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• “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational

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• “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

  Bob Marley

  Music

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• “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

  Ernest Hemingway

  Books, Friends, Novelist Quotes

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• “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

  Groucho Marx

  Books, Humor, Reading, Television

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• “The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

  Douglas Adams

  Humor, Scifi

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• “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Simile

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• “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational

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• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

  Winston S. Churchill

  Bravery, Courage, Failure, Inspirational, Success

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