Me in quotes

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"I will tolerate the crap out of you."

"The problem with being introverted is that there is no polite way of saying "I love you but I'm tired of being with you right now.""

"I'm a very private person. Yet an open book. If you don't ask, I won't tell."

"I am under no obligation to make sense to you."

"My words sound better coming from my hands than from my mouth."

"I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."
- Jane Austen

"She takes mental vacations. She disappears once in a while to reclaim herself. You need to understand how her energy works."

"It's better to go slow in the right direct than to go fast in the wrong direction."
- Simon Sinek

"INFJs are simultaneously the most starry-eyed idealists and the bitterest of cynics."

"Constantly being torn between wanting to be a badass who takes shit from no one, and being quite possibly the most sensitive human within a 100-mile radius."

"Don't underestimate me. I know more than I say, think more than I speak and notice more than you realize."

"Always trust your gut. It knows what your head hasn't yet figured out."

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the Moon, who could not be happy?"
- Oscar Wilde

"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."
- Albert Einstein

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours."
- Alan Bennett

"Dance is a sport, no matter how much glitter is involved."

"Speak your mind; even if your voice shakes."

"One of the hardest decisions in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder."

"Sometimes I want to slap some of the characters with their own book."

"I've read too many books to believe what I'm told."

"Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?"
- David Baldacci

"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?"

"I would rather die of passion than boredom."
- Van Gogh

"Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, by no flowers grow."
- Van Gogh

"Accept who you are an revel in it."

"Old ways don't open new doors."

"I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy."
- Richard Bach

"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
- Susan Sontag

"Like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would."

"You're allowed to be a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

"Trust the overthinker who tells you they like you. They have, most assuredly thought of every reason not to."

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

"I love you not only for what you are but what I am when I am with you."

"Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say about you and that's life."

"Create a vision that makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning."

"Don't be so cool you can't cry. Don't be so smart you can't wonder. Don't be so set on your sunny days that you can't love the roll of the thunder."

"Keep walking your walk. Those who need to find you will."
- Phil Good

"Don't be eye candy, be soul food."

"I'm too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener."

"I wonder how much of what weighs me down is not mine to carry."

"There's no way I was born to just pay bills and die."

"I stand with everyone who isn't an asshole."

"Most people need less done well, not more done poorly."
- Brian Christiansen

"People will throw stones at you. Don't throw them back. Collect them all and build an empire."

"I'm learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me."

"If you don't see the book you want on the shelf, write it."
- Beverly Cleary

"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You're the entire ocean in a drop."
- Rumi

"The path isn't a straight line; it's a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths."

"What you want exists. Don't settle until you get it."

"Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle."
- Jon Acuff

"I may not be the strongest, I may not be the fastest, but I'll be damned if I'm not trying my hardest."

"Even the nicest people have their limits."

"You can't save people. You can only love them."
- John C. Maxwell

"One smile, can start a friendship. One word, can end a fight. One look, can save a relationship. One individual can change your life."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
- Maya Angelou

"The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here I am," but to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here YOU are.""
- Rita Mae Brown