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#1

“If you are a future donor recipient, remember: your family should be a part of your transformative journey. Both parties will experience growth as they find balance in your new life stage.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: heal, health, human-spirit, journey, pain, personal, suffering, thrive, transformational, trials

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#2

“Self-reflection improves civil discourse by pushing you toward reason.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

tags: connection, empathy, experience, personal, reflections, social-commentary, thought, young-generation

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#3

“Lieutenant Linh said, “Thank you for this valuable information, it gives us an opportunity to take counter-measures to nullify the American attack! I have here, over a thousand young and inexperienced soldiers who are a bit fearful of the Americans. Our young soldiers are asking questions like, “Will an old carbine bullet kill a big American?” and “Would a bullet actually kill a big black American?” He went on to say, “I reassure them that their bullets will kill Americans if they strike at the right spot!” Later on, he was to say, “Four days later, the Americans came. We watched with heavy hearts as their helicopters endlessly were landing men.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: bad, ethics, good, sociology, truth, united, unity, unrest, warring, world-war

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#4

“Death is the ultimate test of faith.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#5

“The Profumo Affair in 1963 profoundly altered British society. It gave lie to the belief that those born into the ruling class were inherently superior and destined to lead.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

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#6

“For now, I had escaped. I was free. And I wanted to know what freedom really felt like, at least for a while.”
― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

tags: different, dystopian, escape, fear, fiction, mystery, plot-turns, special-child, unexpected, unknown

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#7

“Aspasia had herself fallen into very good fortune. So good that at the age of twenty years, she’d probably used up the whole life’s portion of good luck that Tyche had allotted her. To make good fortune last—for herself and the child in her womb—would be up to her.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, athens, democracy, educational, evolution, fiction, greece, love, novel

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#8

“But remember: Just because something shines and looks good to us doesn’t mean that God is in it. So be careful.”
― John Ramirez, Unmasking the Devil: Strategies to Defeat Eternity's Greatest Enemy

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#9

“The war is over. Black people got rights now, just like us white folk. Besides…” he tapped his chest. “It’s what in here that counts.”
― Donald Montano, Drink Deep from the Well of Good Intentions

tags: i-don-t-want-to-go-there-again

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#10

“When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: action, doctors, domestic, domestic-thriller, fiction, health, medical, medical-fiction, patients, ruin

102 likes

#11

“A big thing can be simply the sum of small things.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

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#12

“God is the Cure, Love is the Answer”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, God is the Cure, Love is the Answer : A Memoir

tags: abuse, betrayal, devine, fight, god, hope, life, strength, truth, unrest

459 likes

#13

“Pretty isn’t permanent.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: action, crime, drama, exciting, murder-thriller, past, suspicion

70 likes

#14

“I've been dropped off in a place I do not belong anymore. Certainly not here with Mother and Daddy,...”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

tags: belonging, feeling-lost, finding-your-place

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#15

“A city which belongs to just one man is no true city”
― Sophocles, Antigone

tags: freedom, tyranny

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#16

“It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expedience of capital punishment could be founded in a society glorying in its civilization.”
― Karl Marx

tags: capital-punishment

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#17

“If, however, you take a moment to observe how you actually feel immediately after you criticise someone, you'll notice that you will feel a little deflated and ashamed, almost like you're the one who has been attacked. The reason this is true is that when we criticise, it's a statement to the world and to ourselves, "I have a need to be critical." This isn't something we are usually proud to admit.”
― Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life

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#18

“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: capture, disappointment, emotions, english, excitement, fail, hatred, language, sadness

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#19

“Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending – no, giving –thirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#20

“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around—so was the shore.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: battles, classical-struggles, drama, family-life, hierarchy, naval-battles, passion, philosophical, rebellion

845 likes

#21

“The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

tags: choice, decisions

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#22

“I guess that’s all forever is,” his father replied. “Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer

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#23

“No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.”
― Richard Bach

tags: life

221 likes

#24

“Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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#25

“Quite the social butterfly, Gilbert Alwyn Jones operated an open house policy when it came to friends and family... However, the unexpected visitor now standing on his verandah fell into neither category.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

tags: different, exciting, fantasy, original, science-fiction, thrilling, unique

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