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"and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart."
— Jodi Picoult

tags: death, heart, love, mourning, suicide
165 people liked it

"When you love someone you let them take care of you."
— Jodi Picoult

tags: love
137 people liked it

"A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch."
— Jodi Picoult

147 people liked it

"Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

263 people liked it

"Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned."
— Jodi Picoult (Vanishing Acts)

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"I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

37 people liked it

"A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night"
— James Patterson

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"Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

tags: courtroom, crime, drama
64 people liked it

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof."
— Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)

tags: hope
403 people liked it

"Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place. "
— Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)

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"Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals."
— Barbara Kingsolver (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life)

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"I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book."
— Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)

tags: books, library
30 people liked it

"Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it. "
— Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)

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"Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. "
— Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)

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"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
— Barbara Kingsolver

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"April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts. "
— Barbara Kingsolver (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life)

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"A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill."
— Barbara Kingsolver (Prodigal Summer: A Novel)

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"If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread."
— Barbara Kingsolver

tags: art
26 people liked it

"I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience."
— Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)

7 people liked it

"The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes."
— Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)

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"'What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.'"
— Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)

14 people liked it

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational, language, wisdom
369 people liked it

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: adventure, bravery, inspirational, life
177 people liked it

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: buses, friends, limos, money, wealth
122 people liked it

"When you know better you do better."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: education, intelligence, knowledge, wisdom
191 people liked it

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: anonymity, integrity, morality
83 people liked it

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: dance
57 people liked it

"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around."
— Oprah Winfrey (The Uncommon Wisdom Of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words)

tags: self-awareness
17 people liked it

"You get to know who you really are in a crisis."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: trial
42 people liked it

"When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are"
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: self-appreciation
30 people liked it

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."
— Oprah Winfrey

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"Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural."
— Oprah Winfrey

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"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: philosophy
28 people liked it

"I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: choice
9 people liked it

"Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational
62 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
10,861 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,227 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,626 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,544 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,568 people liked it

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

4,697 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,204 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,126 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,420 people liked it

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

tags: activism, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
2,061 people liked it

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
1,789 people liked it

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
— Anne Frank

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
1,373 people liked it

"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
— Woody Allen

tags: humor, life, sex
1,032 people liked it

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
2,591 people liked it

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
— May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
848 people liked it

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