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  • #1172
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
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  • #1173
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
    10860 likes

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  • #1174
    Erik Pevernagie
    “Common sense is our seventh sense that is guiding our personality. It embraces all other secured senses growing in the shadow of humbleness without being dissipated by disputes, showdowns, or down-right self-righteousness. ("Wit of the staircase")”
    ― Erik Pevernagie
    tags: common-sense, disputes, humbleness, personality, self-righteousness, seventh-sense, showdown, wit-of-the-staircase
    78 likes

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  • #1175
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: ignorance
    3214 likes

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  • #1176
    Marie Curie
    “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence
    1153 likes

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  • #1177
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: failure, intelligence, science, scientific-process, success, truth
    2002 likes

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  • #1178
    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: kindness
    4865 likes

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  • #1179
    E. Lockhart
    “Be a little kinder than you have to.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
    tags: kindness, motto
    2272 likes

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  • #1180
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, kindness, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
    1186 likes

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  • #1181
    Roy T. Bennett
    “When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: adversity, challenge, growth, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, opportunity, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
    599 likes

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  • #1182
    Prince
    “Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.”
    ― Prince
    tags: morality, music, right, temptation, wrong
    285 likes

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  • #1183
    Helen Keller
    “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: by-anne-sullivan, emotions, feelings
    5547 likes

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  • #1184
    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: love
    31249 likes

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  • #1185
    Oscar Wilde
    “I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: pleasure
    464 likes

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  • #1186
    Rita Mae Brown
    “I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: carpe-diem, enjoy-life, hedonism, life, pleasure
    263 likes

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  • #1187
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
    tags: film, movies, nightmare, pleasure
    333 likes

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  • #1188
    Gretchen Rubin
    “Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.”
    ― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project
    tags: affection, happiness, laughter, pleasure, relationships
    223 likes

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  • #1189
    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
    tags: determination, drive, failure, perseverance, richelle, richelle-goodrich, success, trials
    63 likes

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  • #1190
    Asa Don Brown
    “Enjoy each moment and each encounter throughout your life.”
    ― Asa Don Brown
    tags: dr-asa-don-brown, drive, hope, motivation, perfection, recovery, resilient
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  • #1191
    Erich Fromm
    “Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill it.”
    ― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
    tags: 1956, killing-time, love, modern-man, quickly, time, waste-time
    224 likes

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  • #1192
    “Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: achievement, ambition, attitude, blooms, chase, comparing-to-others, comparison, comparison-to-others, doubt, drive, excel, excellent, faith, fear, flower, focus, great, greatness, insecurity, life, motivation, passion, passionate, skill, success, successful, time, waste-time, willpower
    83 likes

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  • #1193
    Bernard Kelvin Clive
    “Life has it woes so learn to be on your toes, be alert.”
    ― Bernard Kelvin Clive, Your Dreams Will Not Die
    tags: alert, caution, learn
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  • #1194
    Charlaine Harris
    “Life begins at night”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark
    tags: eric-northman, night, sookie-stackhouse, true-blood
    179 likes

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  • #1195
    “The present is a great treasure, live in the present.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita
    tags: live-in-the-moment, live-life-so-well, live-your-best-life, live-your-life, live-your-own-life, moments, present, times
    8 likes

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  • #1196
    Francine Rivers
    “Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.”
    ― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
    tags: alone, christian, fight, inspirational, lord
    223 likes

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  • #1197
    J.K. Rowling
    “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: acceptance, inspiration, inspirational, smart, understanding, wise
    4149 likes

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  • #1198
    Anthony Liccione
    “Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: acknowledge, acting, blind, catch, detect, discover, dumb, expose, eye-opener, eyes, have-the-last-laugh, hidden-agendas, idiot, in-the-act, naive, nonchalant, play-the-fool, playing-dumb, reveal, see, see-things-as-they-are, spoil, stupid, trap, trick, truth, uncover, unveil
    42 likes

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  • #1199
    Madeleine K. Albright
    “What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”
    ― Madeleine Albright
    tags: change, choice, free-will, freedom
    155 likes

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  • #1200
    Sam Harris
    “You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
    ― Sam Harris, Free Will
    tags: brain, free-will, mind
    112 likes

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  • #1201
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination
    1896 likes



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