So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

Oscar Wilde

33 quotes

Mark Twain

29 quotes

Albert Einstein

28 quotes

Marilyn Monroe

22 quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

19 quotes

Maya Angelou

17 quotes

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

16 quotes

Allen Klein

14 quotes

Anaïs Nin

11 quotes

Mahatma Gandhi

11 quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

11 quotes

C.S. Lewis

10 quotes

Emily Dickinson

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John Lennon

10 quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr.

10 quotes

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Albert Camus

9 quotes

Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

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Charles Bukowski

9 quotes