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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”
    ― Rumi
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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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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    Atticus .
    “She was that wild thing I loved.
    My dark between the stars.”
    ― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
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    Atticus .
    “A sky
    full
    of stars
    and he
    was staring
    at her.

    —ATTICUS”
    ― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
    tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild
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    Atticus .
    “Sometimes
    I want a quiet life
    other times
    I want to go
    a little bit
    fucking Gatsby.”
    ― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
    tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild
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    Atticus .
    “Don’t give up now,
    chances are
    your best kiss
    your hardest laugh
    and your greatest day
    are still yet to come”
    ― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
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    Atticus .
    “Love her but leave her wild.”
    ― Atticus
    tags: unconditional-love
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    Christopher Andersen
    “In the latter years of her life, Jackie had a recurring premonition that John would be killed piloting his own plane. She pleaded with Maurice to do whatever it took to keep John from becoming a pilot.”
    ― Christopher Andersen, The Day John Died: 25th Anniversary Edition
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    “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
    ― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein
    tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words
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    Christopher Andersen
    “There will never be another Camelot,” she told White wistfully. “There will be great presidents again—and the Johnsons are wonderful, they’ve been wonderful to me—but there’ll never be another Camelot again.”
    ― Christopher Andersen, The Day John Died: 25th Anniversary Edition
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    Christopher Andersen
    “I hate this country. I despise America and I don’t want my children to live here anymore. If they are killing Kennedys, my kids are the number one targets. I have the two main targets. I want to get out of this country! —-Jackie after the assassination of Bobby Kennedy”
    ― Christopher Andersen, The Day John Died: 25th Anniversary Edition
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    Christopher Andersen
    “We dared to think . . . this John Kennedy would live to comb gray hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side. But like his father,” Ted said, his voice catching, “he had every gift but length of years.”
    ― Christopher Andersen, The Day John Died: 25th Anniversary Edition
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  • #14
    “Bildt,” the little Dutch farming village from which his ancestors had emigrated to Staten Island, and “more,” an Old English word for “rolling uplands.”
    ― Robert Wernick, Vanderbilt's Biltmore
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    Colleen Hoover
    “The only difference between falling in love and being in love is that your heart already knows how you feel, but your mind is too stubborn to admit it.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Not
    tags: heart, love, maybe-not, maybe-someday, stubbornness, warren
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    Lee Hall
    “Cold darkness would follow, and it excited me a little, for reasons I still don’t know, maybe it was just the intrigue of what another season would bring or perhaps it was what actually lay in the darkness beyond.”
    ― Lee Hall, Open Evening
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    “She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.”
    ― Natalie Newman, Butterflies and Bullshit
    tags: beautiful, beauty, inspirational, misattributed-f-scott-fitzgerald
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  • #19
    “Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.”
    ― Martina Navratilova, Shape Your Self: My 6-Step Diet and Fitness Plan to Achieve the Best Shape of Your Life
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, deeds, good, leo-tolstoy
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    Casey McQuiston
    “Of course I love you. I could go back in time and have a whole life and get old and never see you again, and you would still be it. You were— you are the love of my life.”
    ― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop
    tags: august-landry, jane-su, love, one-last-stop
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    Ransom Riggs
    “We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    “Dear ignorance, I’m disowning you.
    Dear knowledge, I’m wooing you.
    Dear understanding, I’m seeking you.
    Dear wisdom, I’m wedding you.

    Dear fear, I’m divorcing you.
    Dear courage, I’m courting you.
    Dear hope, I’m pursuing you.
    Dear love, I’m marrying you.

    Dear past, I survived you.
    Dear present, I’m ready for you.
    Dear future, I’m longing for you.
    Dear destiny, I’m coming for you.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: african-philosopher-quotes, african-philosophy-quotes, guru-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, philosopher-quotations, philosopher-quotes, philosophy-quotations, philosophy-quotes, solomonology-quotes, wise-quotes
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    Lisel Mueller
    “In winter we close the windows
    and read Chekhov,
    nearly weeping for his world.

    What luxury, to be so happy
    that we can grieve
    over imaginary lives.”
    ― Lisel Mueller
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    Deanna Raybourn
    “Because there is no power on earth that could make me abandon our friendship. There is no deed you could confess so dark that it would make me forsake you. You said of us once that we were quicksilver and the rest of the world mud. We are alike, shaped by Nature in the same mold, and whatever that signifies, it means that to spurn each other would be to spit in the face of whatever deity has seen fit to bring us together. We are the same, and to leave you would be to leave myself.”
    ― Deanna Raybourn, A Treacherous Curse
    tags: loyalty, selfless-love, true-friendship, true-love
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  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
    tags: books, reading
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: kindness
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    J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    “Over the sward and low grounds a thin film of mist was stealing like smoke, marking the distances with a transparent veil; and here and there we could see the river faintly flashing in the moonlight.”
    ― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
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    J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    “Twelve years ago, in vision or reality, I certainly saw you. I could not forget your face. It has remained before my eyes ever since.”
    ― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
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