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  {"quote":"“We accept the love we think we deserve.”","author":"Stephen Chbosky,","tags":["inspirational","love"]}
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  {"quote":"“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”","author":"Oscar Wilde,","tags":["intelligence","self-deprecation"]}
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  {"quote":"“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["accomplishment","be-yourself","conformity","individuality"]}
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- {"quote":"“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”","author":"Rob Siltanen","tags":["advertising","apple","change","commercial","computers","different","madness","misattributed-apple","misattributed-steve-jobs","misfits","nonconformity","progressive","rebels","status-quo","think-different","troublemakers"]}
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  {"quote":"“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”","author":"Narcotics Anonymous","tags":["humor","insanity","life","misattributed-ben-franklin","misattributed-mark-twain","misattributed-to-einstein"]}
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  {"quote":"“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.”","author":"Marilyn Monroe","tags":["misattributed-marilyn-monroe"]}
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  {"quote":"“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.”","author":"H. Jackson Brown Jr.,","tags":["actions","disappointed","disappointment","dream","dreams","explore","misattributed-mark-twain","sail"]}
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  {"quote":"“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”","author":"C.S. Lewis,","tags":["friendship","inspirational"]}
345
  {"quote":"“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”","author":"Charlotte Brontë,","tags":["love","pride","women"]}
346
  {"quote":"“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”","author":"John Green,","tags":["change","grief","loss","revelation"]}
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- {"quote":"“Promise YourselfTo be so strong that nothingcan disturb your peace of mind.To talk health, happiness, and prosperityto every person you meet.To make all your friends feelthat there is something in themTo look at the sunny side of everythingand make your optimism come true.To think only the best, to work only for the best,and to expect only the best.To be just as enthusiastic about the success of othersas you are about your own.To forget the mistakes of the pastand press on to the greater achievements of the future.To wear a cheerful countenance at all timesand give every living creature you meet a smile.To give so much time to the improvement of yourselfthat you have no time to criticize others.To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,not in loud words but great deeds.To live in faith that the whole world is on your sideso long as you are true to the best that is in you.”","author":"Christian D. Larson,","tags":["happiness","inspirational","love","optimism","strength"]}
348
  {"quote":"“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”","author":"Aldous Huxley,","tags":["fact","ignorance","truth"]}
349
  {"quote":"“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”","author":"Suzanne Collins,","tags":["the-hunger-games"]}
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  {"quote":"“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”","author":"Kurt Vonnegut","tags":["humour","telekinetics"]}
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  {"quote":"“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”","author":"Voltaire","tags":["dance","dancing","reading"]}
437
  {"quote":"“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”","author":"Dr. Seuss,","tags":["activism"]}
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  {"quote":"“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”","author":"Cassandra Clare,","tags":["chapter-24","life","will-herondale"]}
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- {"quote":"“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.”","author":"John Green,","tags":["existence","life"]}
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  {"quote":"“Deep in the meadow, hidden far awayA cloak of leaves, a moonbeam rayForget your woes and let your troubles layAnd when it's morning again, they'll wash awayHere it's safe, here it's warmHere the daisies guard you from every harmHere your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them trueHere is the place where I love you.”","author":"Suzanne Collins,","tags":["katniss","rue","song"]}
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  {"quote":"“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”","author":"Sir Francis Bacon","tags":["books","reading"]}
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  {"quote":"“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”","author":"Mary Oliver","tags":["poetry"]}
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  {"quote":"“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["books","humor"]}
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  {"quote":"“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”","author":"Lemony Snicket,","tags":["death"]}
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  {"quote":"“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”","author":"John Greenleaf Whittier,","tags":["life","words"]}
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- {"quote":"“I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what's her name?\" says Caesar.Peeta sighs. \"Well, there is this one girl. I've had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I'm pretty sure she didn't know I was alive until the reaping.\"Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.She have another fellow?\" asks Caesar.I don't know, but a lot of boys like her,\" says Peeta.So, here's what you do. You win, you go home. She can't turn you down then, eh?\" says Caesar encouragingly.I don't think it's going to work out. Winning...won't help in my case,\" says Peeta.Why ever not?\" says Caesar, mystified.Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. \"Because...because...she came here with me.”","author":"Suzanne Collins,","tags":["peeta"]}
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  {"quote":"“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”","author":"Cassandra Clare,","tags":["city-of-bones","jace-wayland"]}
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  {"quote":"“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”","author":"Oscar Wilde,","tags":["experience-mistakes-wisdom"]}
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  {"quote":"“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["inspirational"]}
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  {"quote":"“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”","author":"Anais Nin","tags":["growth"]}
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  {"quote":"“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”","author":"Douglas Adams,","tags":["humor"]}
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  {"quote":"“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”","author":"Bette Midler","tags":["misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe"]}
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- {"quote":"“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.''Seventeen,' Gus corrected.'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'I was kind of crying by then.”","author":"John Green,","tags":["john-green","tfios","the-fault-in-our-stars"]}
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  {"quote":"“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["belief","death","ideals","martyr","truth"]}
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  {"quote":"“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["astronomer","science","writer"]}
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  {"quote":"“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”","author":"Winston Churchill","tags":["convictions","criticism"]}
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  {"quote":"“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”","author":"Henry Ford","tags":["thinking"]}
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  {"quote":"“The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”","author":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","tags":["loneliness"]}
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  {"quote":"“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["humor","philosophy"]}
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- {"quote":"“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”","author":"Sylvia Plath,","tags":["life-choices-fig-trees"]}
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  {"quote":"“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”","author":"E.B. White,","tags":["friendship"]}
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  {"quote":"“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”","author":"William Shakespear,","tags":["philosophy"]}
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  {"quote":"“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”","author":"Lloyd Alexander","tags":["fantasy","inspirational","writing"]}
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  {"quote":"“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”","author":"Roy T. Bennett,","tags":["gratitude","heart","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspirational-quotes","inspire","inspiring","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","life-quotes","living","motivation","motivational","optimism","optimistic","positive","positive-affirmation","positive-life","positive-thinking","thoughts"]}
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  {"quote":"“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”","author":"Bertrand Russell,","tags":["happiness","love"]}
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  {"quote":"“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”","author":"Agatha Christie,","tags":["love"]}
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- {"quote":"“أجمل حب هو الذي نعثر عليه أثناء بحثنا عن شيء آخر”","author":"أحلام مستغانمي","tags":["love","حب"]}
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  {"quote":"“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”","author":"James Patterson,","tags":["humor"]}
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  {"quote":"“Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”","author":"Roy T. Bennett,","tags":["excuse","improvement","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspirational-quote","inspirational-quotes","inspire","inspiring","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life-quotes","living","optimism","optimistic","positive","positive-affirmation","positive-life","positive-thinking","respect"]}
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  {"quote":"“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”","author":"Mitch Albom,","tags":["profound"]}
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  {"quote":"“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”","author":"Khaled Hosseini,","tags":["earnestness","gullibility","honesty"]}
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  {"quote":"“You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places.\"\"Enormous?\" said Jace. \"Did you just call me fat?\"\"It was an analogy.\"\"I am not fat.”","author":"Cassandra Clare,","tags":["imposters"]}
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  {"quote":"“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone's life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”","author":"Roy T. Bennett,","tags":["giving","goals","goals-in-life","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational-quotes","learn","learning","life","life-quotes","light","light-and-darkness","living-life","meaning","meaning-of-life","meaningful","meaningful-life","wisdom","wise"]}
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- {"quote":"“Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land”","author":"Pablo Neruda,","tags":["forgetting","heartbreak","inspirational","living","love","moving-on"]}
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  {"quote":"“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["happiness","sanity"]}
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  {"quote":"“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["growing","humanity","inspirational","inspirational-life","inspirational-love","inspirational-quotes","learning","life-and-living","life-lessons","love","people","real-love","reality","reality-of-life","those-who-love-us","to-be-loved","true-love","what-matters"]}
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  {"quote":"“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”","author":"Gregory Maguire,","tags":["evil","good"]}
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  {"quote":"“When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.”","author":"Rumi","tags":["love"]}
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  {"quote":"“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”","author":"Emily Brontë,","tags":["love"]}
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  {"quote":"“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”","author":"Mark Twain,","tags":["imagination"]}
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- {"quote":"“A DEFINITION NOT FOUNDIN THE DICTIONARYNot leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children”","author":"Markus Zusak,","tags":["children","love"]}
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  {"quote":"“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”","author":"Thomas Mann,","tags":["authors","creative-process","struggle","writers","writing"]}
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  {"quote":"“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”","author":"Bill Watterson","tags":["calvin-and-hobbes","humor"]}
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  {"quote":"“Was it hard?\" I ask.Letting go?\"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”","author":"Lisa Schroeder","tags":["heartbreak","life","love"]}
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  {"quote":"“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”","author":"Sarah Dessen,","tags":["life"]}
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  {"quote":"“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["spirituality"]}
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  {"quote":"“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”","author":"Benjamin Franklin,","tags":["freedom","liberty","privacy","safety","security"]}
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- {"quote":"“Name one hero who was happy.\"I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.\"You can't.\" He was sitting up now, leaning forward.\"I can't.\"\"I know. They never let you be famous AND happy.\" He lifted an eyebrow. \"I'll tell you a secret.\"\"Tell me.\" I loved it when he was like this.\"I'm going to be the first.\" He took my palm and held it to his. \"Swear it.\"\"Why me?\"\"Because you're the reason. Swear it.\"\"I swear it,\" I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.\"I swear it,\" he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.\"I feel like I could eat the world raw.”","author":"Madeline Miller,","tags":["fame","happiness","heroes","love","mythology","oaths"]}
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  {"quote":"“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”","author":"Terry Pratchett,","tags":["humor","metaphysics","physics","science"]}
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  {"quote":"“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”","author":"Kurt Vonnegut,","tags":["slaughterhouse-five"]}
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  {"quote":"“That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.”","author":"Cassandra Clare,","tags":["city-of-bones","simon-lewis"]}
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  {"quote":"“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”","author":"Steve Maraboli,","tags":["change","growth","inspirational","letting-go","life","mistakes"]}
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  {"quote":"“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","tags":["comedy","horror","misattributed-ben-franklin"]}
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  {"quote":"“Dreams like a podcast,Downloading truth in my ears.They tell me cool stuff.\"\"Apollo?\" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.He put his finger to his lips. \"I'm incognito. Call me Fred.\"\"A god named Fred?”","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["apollo","fred","haiku","humor","percy-jackson","poem"]}
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- {"quote":"“Sonnet XVIII do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul.I love you as the plant that never bloomsbut carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you,so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. ”","author":"Pablo Neruda","tags":["sonnet-xvii"]}
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  {"quote":"“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["atheism","religion"]}
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  {"quote":"“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”","author":"Frank Zappa","tags":["be-yourself","life","self-determination"]}
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  {"quote":"“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”","author":"Nicholas Sparks","tags":["love","nicholas-sparks","relationships","the-choice"]}
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  {"quote":"“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien,","tags":["friendship","frodo"]}
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  {"quote":"“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”","author":"Rick Riordan,","tags":["family"]}
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  {"quote":"“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”","author":"Christopher Paolini","tags":["common-sense","humor","smart"]}
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- {"quote":"“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”","author":"Vladimir Nabokov,","tags":["amazing-writing"]}
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  {"quote":"“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”","author":"Orhan Pamuk,","tags":["happiness","love"]}
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  {"quote":"“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”","author":"Oscar Wilde,","tags":["aesthetics","appreciation","hidden-things"]}
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  {"quote":"“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”","author":"John Grisham,","tags":["be-yourself","courtroom-drama","crime"]}
 
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  {"quote":"“We accept the love we think we deserve.”","author":"Stephen Chbosky,","tags":["inspirational","love"]}
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  {"quote":"“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”","author":"Oscar Wilde,","tags":["intelligence","self-deprecation"]}
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  {"quote":"“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["accomplishment","be-yourself","conformity","individuality"]}
 
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  {"quote":"“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”","author":"Narcotics Anonymous","tags":["humor","insanity","life","misattributed-ben-franklin","misattributed-mark-twain","misattributed-to-einstein"]}
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  {"quote":"“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.”","author":"Marilyn Monroe","tags":["misattributed-marilyn-monroe"]}
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  {"quote":"“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.”","author":"H. Jackson Brown Jr.,","tags":["actions","disappointed","disappointment","dream","dreams","explore","misattributed-mark-twain","sail"]}
 
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  {"quote":"“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”","author":"C.S. Lewis,","tags":["friendship","inspirational"]}
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  {"quote":"“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”","author":"Charlotte Brontë,","tags":["love","pride","women"]}
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  {"quote":"“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”","author":"John Green,","tags":["change","grief","loss","revelation"]}
 
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  {"quote":"“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”","author":"Aldous Huxley,","tags":["fact","ignorance","truth"]}
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  {"quote":"“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”","author":"Suzanne Collins,","tags":["the-hunger-games"]}
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  {"quote":"“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”","author":"Kurt Vonnegut","tags":["humour","telekinetics"]}
 
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  {"quote":"“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”","author":"Voltaire","tags":["dance","dancing","reading"]}
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  {"quote":"“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”","author":"Dr. Seuss,","tags":["activism"]}
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  {"quote":"“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”","author":"Cassandra Clare,","tags":["chapter-24","life","will-herondale"]}
 
437
  {"quote":"“Deep in the meadow, hidden far awayA cloak of leaves, a moonbeam rayForget your woes and let your troubles layAnd when it's morning again, they'll wash awayHere it's safe, here it's warmHere the daisies guard you from every harmHere your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them trueHere is the place where I love you.”","author":"Suzanne Collins,","tags":["katniss","rue","song"]}
438
  {"quote":"“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”","author":"Sir Francis Bacon","tags":["books","reading"]}
439
  {"quote":"“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”","author":"Mary Oliver","tags":["poetry"]}
 
502
  {"quote":"“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["books","humor"]}
503
  {"quote":"“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”","author":"Lemony Snicket,","tags":["death"]}
504
  {"quote":"“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”","author":"John Greenleaf Whittier,","tags":["life","words"]}
 
505
  {"quote":"“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”","author":"Cassandra Clare,","tags":["city-of-bones","jace-wayland"]}
506
  {"quote":"“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”","author":"Oscar Wilde,","tags":["experience-mistakes-wisdom"]}
507
  {"quote":"“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["inspirational"]}
 
510
  {"quote":"“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”","author":"Anais Nin","tags":["growth"]}
511
  {"quote":"“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”","author":"Douglas Adams,","tags":["humor"]}
512
  {"quote":"“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”","author":"Bette Midler","tags":["misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe"]}
 
513
  {"quote":"“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["belief","death","ideals","martyr","truth"]}
514
  {"quote":"“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["astronomer","science","writer"]}
515
  {"quote":"“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”","author":"Winston Churchill","tags":["convictions","criticism"]}
 
522
  {"quote":"“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”","author":"Henry Ford","tags":["thinking"]}
523
  {"quote":"“The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”","author":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","tags":["loneliness"]}
524
  {"quote":"“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["humor","philosophy"]}
 
525
  {"quote":"“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”","author":"E.B. White,","tags":["friendship"]}
526
  {"quote":"“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”","author":"William Shakespear,","tags":["philosophy"]}
527
  {"quote":"“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”","author":"Lloyd Alexander","tags":["fantasy","inspirational","writing"]}
 
999
  {"quote":"“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”","author":"Roy T. Bennett,","tags":["gratitude","heart","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspirational-quotes","inspire","inspiring","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","life-quotes","living","motivation","motivational","optimism","optimistic","positive","positive-affirmation","positive-life","positive-thinking","thoughts"]}
1000
  {"quote":"“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”","author":"Bertrand Russell,","tags":["happiness","love"]}
1001
  {"quote":"“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”","author":"Agatha Christie,","tags":["love"]}
 
1002
  {"quote":"“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”","author":"James Patterson,","tags":["humor"]}
1003
  {"quote":"“Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”","author":"Roy T. Bennett,","tags":["excuse","improvement","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspirational-quote","inspirational-quotes","inspire","inspiring","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life-quotes","living","optimism","optimistic","positive","positive-affirmation","positive-life","positive-thinking","respect"]}
1004
  {"quote":"“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”","author":"Mitch Albom,","tags":["profound"]}
 
1045
  {"quote":"“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”","author":"Khaled Hosseini,","tags":["earnestness","gullibility","honesty"]}
1046
  {"quote":"“You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places.\"\"Enormous?\" said Jace. \"Did you just call me fat?\"\"It was an analogy.\"\"I am not fat.”","author":"Cassandra Clare,","tags":["imposters"]}
1047
  {"quote":"“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone's life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”","author":"Roy T. Bennett,","tags":["giving","goals","goals-in-life","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational-quotes","learn","learning","life","life-quotes","light","light-and-darkness","living-life","meaning","meaning-of-life","meaningful","meaningful-life","wisdom","wise"]}
1048
+ {"quote":"“Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving me. I shall stop loving you. Little by little. If suddenly you forget me. Do not look for me. For I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life. And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots. Remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms. And my roots will set off to seek another land”","author":"Pablo Neruda,","tags":["forgetting","heartbreak","inspirational","living","love","moving-on"]}
1049
  {"quote":"“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["happiness","sanity"]}
1050
  {"quote":"“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["growing","humanity","inspirational","inspirational-life","inspirational-love","inspirational-quotes","learning","life-and-living","life-lessons","love","people","real-love","reality","reality-of-life","those-who-love-us","to-be-loved","true-love","what-matters"]}
1051
  {"quote":"“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”","author":"Gregory Maguire,","tags":["evil","good"]}
 
1358
  {"quote":"“When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.”","author":"Rumi","tags":["love"]}
1359
  {"quote":"“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”","author":"Emily Brontë,","tags":["love"]}
1360
  {"quote":"“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”","author":"Mark Twain,","tags":["imagination"]}
 
1361
  {"quote":"“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”","author":"Thomas Mann,","tags":["authors","creative-process","struggle","writers","writing"]}
1362
  {"quote":"“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”","author":"Bill Watterson","tags":["calvin-and-hobbes","humor"]}
1363
  {"quote":"“Was it hard?\" I ask.Letting go?\"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”","author":"Lisa Schroeder","tags":["heartbreak","life","love"]}
 
1517
  {"quote":"“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”","author":"Sarah Dessen,","tags":["life"]}
1518
  {"quote":"“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["spirituality"]}
1519
  {"quote":"“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”","author":"Benjamin Franklin,","tags":["freedom","liberty","privacy","safety","security"]}
 
1520
  {"quote":"“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”","author":"Terry Pratchett,","tags":["humor","metaphysics","physics","science"]}
1521
  {"quote":"“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”","author":"Kurt Vonnegut,","tags":["slaughterhouse-five"]}
1522
  {"quote":"“That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.”","author":"Cassandra Clare,","tags":["city-of-bones","simon-lewis"]}
 
1566
  {"quote":"“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”","author":"Steve Maraboli,","tags":["change","growth","inspirational","letting-go","life","mistakes"]}
1567
  {"quote":"“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","tags":["comedy","horror","misattributed-ben-franklin"]}
1568
  {"quote":"“Dreams like a podcast,Downloading truth in my ears.They tell me cool stuff.\"\"Apollo?\" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.He put his finger to his lips. \"I'm incognito. Call me Fred.\"\"A god named Fred?”","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["apollo","fred","haiku","humor","percy-jackson","poem"]}
 
1569
  {"quote":"“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["atheism","religion"]}
1570
  {"quote":"“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”","author":"Frank Zappa","tags":["be-yourself","life","self-determination"]}
1571
  {"quote":"“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”","author":"Nicholas Sparks","tags":["love","nicholas-sparks","relationships","the-choice"]}
 
1611
  {"quote":"“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien,","tags":["friendship","frodo"]}
1612
  {"quote":"“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”","author":"Rick Riordan,","tags":["family"]}
1613
  {"quote":"“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”","author":"Christopher Paolini","tags":["common-sense","humor","smart"]}
 
1614
  {"quote":"“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”","author":"Orhan Pamuk,","tags":["happiness","love"]}
1615
  {"quote":"“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”","author":"Oscar Wilde,","tags":["aesthetics","appreciation","hidden-things"]}
1616
  {"quote":"“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”","author":"John Grisham,","tags":["be-yourself","courtroom-drama","crime"]}