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I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Lauren Bacall
    • #self
    • #potential
  • 1 week ago
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
    • #art
    • #self
  • 2 weeks ago
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Remember, when you’re with me, it’s the only time you’re not the strangest person in the room. So go ahead, get weird with me.
Calista Flockheart, Ally McBeal
    • #tv
    • #crazy
    • #self
  • 1 month ago
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Ask yourself: ‘Can I give more?’. The answer is usually: ‘Yes’.
Paul Tergat
    • #limits
    • #self
  • 2 months ago
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‘I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,’ said Pooh.
‘There there,’ said Piglet. ‘I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.’
A.A. Milne, Winnie-The-Pooh
    • #book
    • #comfort
    • #friendship
    • #self
  • 3 months ago
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That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
    • #book
    • #destiny
    • #self
  • 5 months ago
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Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell
    • #reputation
    • #freedom
    • #self
  • 7 months ago
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There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I’m such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn’t be half so interesting.
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    • #book
    • #self
  • 9 months ago
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The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc
    • #leadership
    • #self
  • 11 months ago
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln
    • #self
  • 1 year ago
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Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
Joss Whedon
    • #individual
    • #self
    • #humor
  • 1 year ago
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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
George Bernard Shaw
    • #change
    • #self
  • 1 year ago
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You see life is like that. We change, that’s all. You see, the guy I am now is not the guy I was then. If the guy I was then met the guy I am now he’d beat the shit out of me. Those are the facts.

Matthew Lillard, SLC Punk

(via movie-lines)

Source: movie-lines

    • #movie
    • #change
    • #self
    • #growth
  • 1 year ago > movie-lines
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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Siddhārtha Gautama
    • #self
    • #acceptance
  • 1 year ago
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With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I’d done more, I could have been quite remarkable.
Katharine Hepburn
    • #opportunity
    • #privilege
    • #self
  • 1 year ago
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