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    Andrew Davidson
    “Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.”
    ― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
    tags: the-gargoyle
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
    tags: love
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: friendship
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    Golda Meir
    “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
    ― Golda Meir
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Play to your strengths."

    "I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself.

    "Excuse me," growled Moody, "you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. Think now. What are you best at?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: confidence, strengths
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    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    Mother Teresa
    “I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: agape, love, metaphor, paraphrased
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    Mother Teresa
    “Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.”
    ― Mother Teresa
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    Matthew Kelly
    “Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.”
    ― Matthew Kelly
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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  • #12
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #13
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “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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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    Greg Mortenson
    “Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they’ve learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.”
    ― Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
    tags: community, education
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #21
    “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
    ― William Durant
    tags: knowledge-habit-inspirational
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: inspirational-ship-storms
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    Woody Allen
    “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: success
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    Joseph Campbell
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: change, life, open-heart, open-mind, resilience
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  • #25
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “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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    Washington Irving
    “There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”
    ― Washington Irving, The Sketch Book
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    Ephrem the Syrian
    “O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, faintheartedness, lust of power, and idle talk.

    “But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to your servant.

    “Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sin and not to judge my brother, for You are blessed from all ages to all ages. Amen”
    ― St. Ephraim the Syrian
    tags: lent
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  • #28
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
    3837 likes

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  • #29
    Philip Gulley
    “Love, even that love which is imagined, is sometimes all we have to get us through.”
    ― Philip Gulley, Home to Harmony
    tags: love
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  • #30
    Thomas Moore
    “Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”
    ― Thomas Moore
    tags: inspirational
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  • #31
    Leo Tolstoy
    “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: compatibility
    459 likes



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