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“I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

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“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

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#3

“Let your intuition guide you, but also use your head and take responsibility for the free will choices you make”
― Theresa Caputo

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#4

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

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“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.”
― Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, left-behind, love

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#6

“I'll always say my prayers... and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

tags: heidi

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#7

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

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#8

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#9

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone

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#10

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends

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#11

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
― J.K. rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: fear

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#12

“I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references.”
― Robin McKinley, Sunshine

tags: humor

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#13

“There are things you don't want to know you can do”
― Robin McKinley, Sunshine

tags: dire-circumstances, paradigm-shift, power, self-awareness, the-unknown

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#14

“The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.”
― Robin McKinley, Sunshine

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#15

“All I'm saying is it doesn't matter when we die as long as we've left something good behind us.”
― Sara Lövestam, Hjärta av jazz

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#16

“You reach a breaking point when you are tired of having to be the person your surroundings want you to be.”
― Sara Lövestam, Hjärta av jazz

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#17

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#18

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: inspirational

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#19

“You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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#20

“But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: concieted-men, praise

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#21

“One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!"

And a little later you added:
"You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..."

"Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"

But the little prince made no reply.”
― Antoine de Saint Exupery, The Little Prince

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“I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice.”
― Robin McKinley, Sunshine

tags: books, fiction, life

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“Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.”
― Robin McKinley, Sunshine

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#24

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#25

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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#26

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#27

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#28

“There are good people in Gotham. Protect them.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Catwoman: Soulstealer

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#29

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#30

“You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
― Michelle Obama

tags: decision-making, decisions, fear

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