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• I try not to look at my schedule for the week because I'll get so overwhelmed. Every day, there are multiple things to be done and 10 things I don't end up accomplishing.

  Hilary Duff

  Trying, Looks, Done

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• It's not attractive when girls get super skinny. Guys don't like it. Gils don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

  Hilary Duff

  Girl, Thinking, Guy

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• When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

  Lech Walesa

  Lying, Hatred, Deceit

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• When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.

  Regina Brett

  Ideas, Soul, Bed

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• It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Pride, Two

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• It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, Children, Learning

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.21, Beacon Press

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• No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

  Orson Scott Card

  Heart, Men, Evil

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.97, Macmillan

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• Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Bullfighting, Way, Sun Also Rises

  The Sun Also Rises ch. 2 (1926)

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• I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

  Richelle Mead

  Lessons, Next, Zen Life

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.351, Penguin

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• Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Tough

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

  Lev Grossman

  Wish, Lessons, Teach

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.216, Penguin

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• Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

  Steig Larsson

  Guarantees, Related

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• ...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.

  John Muir

  Song, Flower, Animal

  John Muir (2006). “Our National Parks”, p.78, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Speaking of friends, the best ones always have your back.

  Selena Gomez

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• Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Say Anything, Three, Lessons

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• You can have it all without suffering from a meltdown.

  Selena Gomez

  Suffering, Meltdowns

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• They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wise, Army, Farewell To Arms

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 27, 2015

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• I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

  Colonel Sanders

  Life, Motivational, Determination

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in general or from men onto women - it's a lot. And when it comes to being a mom, I wish everyone could band together and realize that everyone has different beliefs, different styles, and different things that work them and their family.

  Hilary Duff

  Mom, Men, Thinking

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• I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.

  Herb Kelleher

  Scared, Life Death

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• Be big, fast and flexible.

  Reed Hastings

  Bigs, Flexible

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• The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

  Debbi Fields

  People, Trying, Today

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• Good is not enough. You've got to be great.

  Simon Cowell

  Motivational, Enough

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• You're not going to live your life unscathed.

  Kirstie Alley

  Live Your Life

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