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""...but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short." "
— Jane Austen

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"Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton."
— Dean Koontz

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"Love weighs nothing."
— Barbara Kingsolver

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"Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art."
— Louisa May Alcott (A Long Fatal Love Chase)

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"Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what."
— Dean Koontz

tags: perseverance
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"Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. "
— Dean Koontz

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"That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit."
— Louisa May Alcott

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"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: beauty, happiness, inspirational, love
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"Conceit spoils the finest genius."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

tags: wisdom
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""Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.""
— Louisa May Alcott

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

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"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."
— Barbara Kingsolver (Small Wonder: Essays)

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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. "
— Barbara Kingsolver

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"One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb."
— Jan Karon

tags: life
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"I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!"
— Jan Karon (Light in the Window)

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"Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You...."
— Jan Karon (In This Mountain)

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"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort."
— Jane Austen

tags: relaxation
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"Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like."
— Jane Austen

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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

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"Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings."
— Jane Austen

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"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all."
— Jane Austen

tags: humor, jane-austen
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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
— Jane Austen (Mansfield Park)

tags: happiness
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"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

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"Those who do not complain are never pitied. (Chapter 20)"
— Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)

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"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. "
— Jane Austen

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"When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time."
— Diana Gabaldon (The Fiery Cross)

119 people liked it

"Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer."
— Dean Koontz (False Memory)

tags: animals, dogs
74 people liked it

"There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore."
— Gregory David Roberts

tags: shantaram
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"He knew that would not do, of course. Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing that you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically (417)"
— Ken Follett (The Pillars of the Earth)

tags: faith, god
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"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

tags: idiotic-book, love, romance, romantic
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"Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy."
— Charlaine Harris

tags: books, vacation
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