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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: life
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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  • #8
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: change, focus, grow, growth, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leaders, leadership, life, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, stay-focused, step-out-of-comfort-zone, transform
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    Coco Chanel
    “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: failure, success, time
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: joy, rumi, sorrow, transformation
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    “Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.”
    ― C.R. Strahan
    tags: forgiveness, pain, self-perception, survivor, victim
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: destiny, fate, fortune, learning-process, meaning, value
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    Ko Un
    “Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.”
    ― Ko Un
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
    tags: philosophy
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: inspirational
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    Brené Brown
    “Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”
    ― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
    tags: authenticity, belonging, self-acceptance
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Life is available only in the present moment.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions
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    “When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.”
    ― Dean Jackson
    tags: butterfly, change, transformation, woman
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    Albert Camus
    “We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: inspirational, motivational
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    Brennan Manning
    “Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself. ”
    ― Brennan Manning, The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God's Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives
    tags: freedom
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
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    J. Krishnamurti
    “If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”
    ― J. Krishnamurti
    tags: self-acceptance, self-discovery, self-understanding
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    Jaclyn Friedman
    “A slut is someone, usually a woman, who’s stepped outside of the very narrow lane that good girls are supposed to stay within. Sluts are loud. We’re messy. We don’t behave. In fact, the original definition of “slut” meant “untidy woman.” But since we live in a world that relies on women to be tidy in all ways, to be quiet and obedient and agreeable and available (but never aggressive), those of us who color outside of the lines get called sluts. And that word is meant to keep us in line.”
    ― Jaclyn Friedman
    tags: consent, double-standards, equality, female-empowerment, female-liberation, feminism, freedom-of-expression, rape-culture, slut, slut-shaming, social-norms, societal-standards, society
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    Albert Einstein
    “If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: acquiescence, activism, consent, dissent, duty, protest, remaining-silent
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    David Rovics
    “They'll say you are bad
    or perhaps you are mad
    or at least you
    should stay undercover.
    Your mind must be bare
    if you would dare
    to think you can love
    more than one lover.”
    ― David Rovics
    tags: agape, believe, betrayal, break-up, broken, cheat, cheater, cheating, closet, commitment, communication, consent, control, cry, depressed, desire, dirty, divorce, divorced, dream, empowering, end, ended, eros, family, fear, feelings, feminism, forever, freedom, friends, friendship, gone, happiness, heartbreak, heartbroken, hearts, honesty, horny, human, humanity, hurt, infidelity, jealousy, jerk, keep, keeper, keepers, live, lost, lovers, monogamy, nasty, need, nonmonogamy, pain, partners, peace, plural, polyamory, polyandry, polycule, polygamy, polygyny, possessive, quad, queer, real, relationship, respect, romantic, sad, share, sharing, slut, sluts, sorrow, spice, spouse, stay, suffering, sweet, sweethearts, swinging, team, threesome, time, triad, trouble, truth, undercover, unfaithful, unicorn, unity, valentine, valentines, value, wisdom, wishes, yolo
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    Amy Reed
    “Silence does not mean yes. No can be thought and felt but never said. It can be screamed silently on the inside. It can be in the wordless stone of a clenched fist, fingernails digging into palm. Her lips sealed. Her eyes closed. His body just taking, never asking, never taught to question silence”
    ― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls
    tags: consent, rape
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Tell her that her body belongs to her and her alone, that she should never feel the need to say yes to something she does not want, or something she feels pressured to do. Teach her that saying no when no feels right is something to be proud of.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
    tags: consent, empowerment
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Encourage her to speak her mind, to say what she really thinks, to speak truthfully. And then praise her when she does. Praise her especially when she takes a stand that is difficult or unpopular because it happens to be her honest position. Tell her that kindness matters. Praise her when she is kind to other people. But teach her that her kindness must never be taken for granted. Tell her that she too deserves the kindness of others. Teach her to stand up for what is hers. If another child takes her toy without her permission, ask her to take it back, because her consent is important. Tell her that if anything ever makes her uncomfortable, to speak up, to say it, to shout.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
    tags: consent, feminism
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