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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hope, inspirational
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: despair, hope
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    Antonio Porchia
    “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
    ― Antonio Porchia
    tags: death, hope, immortality, life, memory, remembrance
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    T.S. Eliot
    “The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: hope, humanity, library
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    It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.
    “It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”
    ― Frank Warren
    tags: breaking, children, hope, inspirational, inspiring, pith, save, world
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    William Wilberforce
    “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
    ― William Wilberforce
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    Mother Teresa
    “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: hope, religious, spiritual
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim.
    (I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.)
    (Gilraen's linnod)”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: hope, inspirational, others
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  • #11
    “And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.”
    ― Mark Anthony, The Beautiful Truth
    tags: inspirational, women-empowerment
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water
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  • #13
    Courage, dear heart.
    “Courage, dear heart.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    tags: aslan, narnia
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    C.S. Lewis
    “It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?"
    "But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan.
    "Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund.
    "I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    tags: aslan, narnia
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    C.S. Lewis
    “He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    tags: aslan, lion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: aslan, love, power
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
    tags: aslan, inspirational, lion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
    tags: aslan, hope
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?” said the King. “That would be nothing, nothing at all. Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
    tags: aslan, death, faith, jewel, king, life, tirian
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A golden light fell on them from the left. He thought it was the sun...It was from the Lion that the light came. No one ever saw anything more terrible or beautiful.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and his Boy
    tags: aslan, christianity, narnia
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Well done, last of the Kings of Narnia, who stood firm at the darkest hour.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
    tags: aslan, tirian
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Lucy buried her head in his mane to hide from his face. But there must have been some magic in his mane. She could feel lion-strength going into her. Quite suddenly she sat up. "I'm sorry, Aslan," she said. "I'm ready now."
    "Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
    tags: aslan, inner-strength, lioness, lucy-pevensie
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    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
    tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance
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    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie
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    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    A.A. Milne
    “If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    A.A. Milne
    “I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Karen Fowler
    “Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories seemed to be covered in gossemer, fading behind a curtain of time and forgiveness.”
    ― Karen Fowler, Memories For Sale
    tags: forgiveness, mothers-and-daughters, novella, short-fiction
    11 likes



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