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"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
"But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer."

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye.
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"Sometimes you have to
Stop worrying, wondering, and doubting.
Have faith that things will work out,
maybe not how you planned,
but just how it's meant to be."
We fade away, but vivid in our eyes
A world is born again that never dies.
- My Home by Clive James
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"The most important act of your life may be something you hardly notice at all. A bit of advice you give a friend. Some kindness offered to a stranger at just the right moment. Perhaps your purpose is to fail— to fail in some great deed— but in failure, you inspire others to take up your mantle and change the world. The true and lasting impact of your actions is not something you can hope to understand in this short, little life."

Ryan Gladney, Nine Lives of Adam Blake
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"Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them" - A.A. Milne
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"If you wear a mask for long enough, you forget who you are underneath it."

V for Vendetta

"And all that had come together commenced to fall apart."

John Green, Looking for Alaska (I think)
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But we can't flinch when it becomes necessary to proceed in a manner that is beyond the normal, accepted limits. We cannot lose sight of our goals." -- Charles, Against Their Will by Nancy Livingstone. I just finished this one and loved this quote even if it was about doing something wrong.
The world breaks everyone, and afterwards, some are strong at the broken points ~ Ernest Hemingway.
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"Let the advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it."

-Will Rogers
“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
― Steven Wright
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“I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.” - Walt Whitman
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In the words of Nikolai Gogol:
"In the department of -- but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and, in a word, every branch of public service. Each individual attached to them nowadays thinks all society insulted in his person." The Overcoat.
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure...but there is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you...As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -M.W.
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"It's not who we are underneath, but what we do that defines."- Batman. Albeit weird having one of your favorite sayings be from the fictional dark knight, it is a quote that holds a lot of meaning.
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hmmm I have the feeling I will be the group creep by saying that , but I really like this quote :
“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.” by Joe Abercrombie
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Scott wrote:"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Nietzsche

That's one on the very long list I have of favorite quotes. Definitely a good one.

-- 08 Sep 2015, 15:02 --

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night" - Sarah Williams "The Old Astronomer"

One of the many favorites on my list.
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“You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, think again.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

-- 20 Sep 2015, 10:47 --

“When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Perfect


If ya can't tell, I'm a tad in love with books by Ellen Hopkins :D
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"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" - Daphne de Maurier

Gives me goosebumps!
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