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“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

“How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.”
― Zane

“don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!”
― Terry McMillan, A Day Late and a Dollar Short

“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“i love myself.'

the
quietest.
simplest.
most
powerful.
revolution.
ever.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Sleeping with Strangers

“Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Liar's Game

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

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

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― Stephen King , The Stand