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#1

“Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.”
― Michael R French, Once Upon a Lie

tags: calm, emotions, humanity, illusion, illusion-of-the-universe, motivation, passions, rationality, rationality-quotes, ruled-by-our-passions, ruled-by-passion, self-determination, self-determination-quote, universe

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#2

“When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.”
― Michael R French, Once Upon a Lie

tags: embarrassment, love, love-quote, love-quotes-and-sayings, loving-someone, quotes-about-love, surprise, surprises, when-you-re-in-love

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#3

“Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.”
― Michael French

tags: adversity, adversity-inspirational, adversity-quotes, adversity-strength-achievement, building-character, inspirational, personal-growth, personal-growth-quotes, perspective, see-the-world, world

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#4

“In our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going.”
― Michael French, Once Upon a Lie

tags: collide, inspiration, keep-going, life, lives, planets, universe

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#5

“If you spend long enough realizing a character in your book, congratulations, you've made a friend for life.”
― Michael French

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#6

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: love

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#7

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#8

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7181 likes

#9

“Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once.”
― Michael R French, The Reconstruction of Wilson Ryder

tags: begin-again, begin-again-wisdom, death, death-and-dying, life-and-living, life-quotes, reinventing-yourself

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#10

“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
― Anonymous

tags: misattributed-bernard-shaw, misattributed-bertrand-russell, war

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#11

“Falling in love is different for everyone.”
― Michael R French

tags: different-for-everyone, falling-in-love, in-love, quotes-about-falling-in-love

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#12

“A secret that has been buried too long, eating a hole in me, worms its way to the surface, like a swimmer who can't hold his breath any longer.”
― Michael R French, Once Upon a Lie

tags: damaging-secrets, keeping-a-secret, keeping-secrets, old-secrets, quotes-about-keeping-a-secret, quotes-about-secrets, secrecy, toxic-secrets

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#13

“Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.”
― Michael R French, Once Upon a Lie

tags: albert-einstein, children, einstein, parenting-quote, parenting-quotes, raising-a-toddler, they-grow-up-fast, time-flies, time-travel, toddler-quote

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#14

“The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises.”
― Michael R French, Once Upon a Lie

tags: awareness, ignorance, libration, lies, masses, oppressors, promises, tyranny, tyranny-of-majority, tyranny-quotes, war

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#15

“Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.”
― Michael R French, Once Upon a Lie

tags: discrimination, goodness, morality, purpose, quotes-about-discrimination, quotes-about-racism, racism-quote, racism-quotes, self-awareness, self-awareness-quotes, self-hatred

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#16

“We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears.”
― Michael R French, Once Upon a Lie

tags: base-fears, darkness, discrimination, evil, fear, minority, quotes-about-evil, quotes-about-fear, surrender-quotes, transcending-evil

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#17

“In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.”
― Michael R French, Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand

tags: complex-emotion, internal-lives, men, men-and-emotion, men-and-their-emotions, quotes-about-men-and-love, why-men-fall-out-of-love

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#18

“A lot of men not only fear emotional pain, they are afraid to be transparent and vulnerable. To let an outsider even glimpse their confusion or suffering is a taboo that starts in adolescence and becomes more entrenched with adulthood.”
― Michael R French, Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand

tags: emotional-pain, fear-of-vulnerability, insecurities-of-men, mean-fear-emotional-pain, men-s-insecurities, taboo, vulnerable-men

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#19

“Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.”
― Michael R French, Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand

tags: deep-love-quotes, falling-in-love, feeling-safe, feeling-whole, healing, heart, heart-and-soul, infatuation, joining-together-with-someone, love, quote-about-love, quotes-about-falling-in-love, quotes-about-what-is-love, soul, what-is-love

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#20

“What's real and what's not? People we meet in books--Holden Caulfield, Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Bilbo and Gandalf and Frodo-- can become more memorable, and more important to us than people with birth certificates and drivers' licenses. Characters spawned in an author's imagination find a home inside us. They make our lives richer. They become our best friends. They never disappoint. And they never die.”
― Michael R. French

tags: author-inspiration, authors-and-characters, character-quotes, character-relationships, characters, characters-come-to-life, imagination, life-of-characters, love-for-characters, quotes-about-characters, readers-and-characters, writing

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#21

“We are not strangers. It’s a lack of trust that keeps us separated.”
― Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie

tags: community, lack-of-trust, love, quotes-about-strangers, separation, strangers, trust

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#22

“Life brings only so much luck which when used up leaves you without a safety net.”
― Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie

tags: hardships, life, luck, quotes-about-life-and-luck, safety-net

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#23

“Faith is the ability to endure.”
― Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie

tags: ability, endurance, endure, faith, quote-about-faith

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#24

“Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it.”
― Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie

tags: dark, darkness, fungus, inequality, injustice, pisonous, quote-about-racism, racism-fungus

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#25

“When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of "second chances". Their eulogy is a reminder that the living can turn their lives around at any point. You’re not bound by the past; that is who you used to be. You’re reminded that your feelings are not who you are, but how you felt at that moment. Your bad choices defined you yesterday, but they are not who you are today. Your future doesn’t have to travel the same path with the same people. You can start over. You don’t have to apologize to people that won’t listen. You don’t have to justify your feelings or actions, during a difficult time in your life. You don’t have to put up with people that are insecure and want you to fail. All you have to do is walk forward with a positive outlook, and trust that God has a plan that is greater than the sorrow you left behind. The people of quality that were meant to be in your life won’t need you to explain the beauty of your heart. They already understand what being human is----a roller coaster ride of emotions during rainstorms and sunshine, sprinkled with moments when you can almost reach the stars.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: being-human, bravery, confidence, death, do-overs, dreams, emotional, forgiveness, fragile, funerals, honesty, imperfection, new-beginnings, purity-of-heart, real-women-are-not-perfect, redemption, roller-coaster, self-worth, sensitive, strength, this-is-life, trust

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#26

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

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