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    Sara Shepard
    “The best secrets are the most twisted”
    ― Sara Shepard, Twisted
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    Margaret D. McGee
    “I prayed to a mystery.
    Sometimes I was simply aware of the mystery. I saw a flash of it during a trip to New York that David and I took before we were married. We were walking on a busy sidewalk in Manhattan. I don't remember if it was day or night. A man with a wound on his forehead came toward us. His damp, ragged hair might have been clotted with blood, or maybe it was only dirt. He wore deeply dirty clothes. His red, swollen hands, cupped in half-fists, swung loosely at his sides. His eyes were focused somewhere past my right shoulder. He staggered while he walked. The sidewalk traffic flowed around him and with him. He was strange and frightening, and at the same time he belonged on the Manhattan sidewalk as much as any of us. It was that paradox -- that he could be both alien and resident, both brutalized and human, that he could stand out in the moving mass of people like a sea monster in a school of tuna and at the same time be as much at home as any of us -- that stayed with me. I never saw him again, but I remember him often, and when I do, I am aware of the mystery.
    Years later, I was out on our property on the Olympic Peninsula, cutting a path through the woods. This was before our house was built. After chopping through dense salal and hacking off ironwood bushes for an hour or so, I stopped, exhausted. I found myself standing motionless, intensely aware of all of the life around me, the breathing moss, the chattering birds, the living earth. I was as much a part of the woods as any millipede or cedar tree. At that moment, too, I was aware of the mystery.
    Sometimes I wanted to speak to this mystery directly. Out of habit, I began with "Dear God" and ended with "Amen". But I thought to myself, I'm not praying to that old man in the sky. Rather, I'm praying to this thing I can't define. It was sort of like talking into a foggy valley.
    Praying into a bank of fog requires alot of effort. I wanted an image to focus on when I prayed. I wanted something to pray *to*. but I couldn't go back to that old man. He was too closely associated with all I'd left behind.”
    ― Margaret McGee
    tags: faith, god, mystery-of-life, prayer
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: focus, future, happiness, happy, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, letting-go-of-the-past, life, life-and-living, life-quotes, live, living, living-in-the-present, living-life, living-life-to-the-fullest, living-now, worry
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, living-life-to-the-fullest, loving-life, self-love, self-value, self-worth, the-value-of-life, valuing-life, valuing-oneself
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    Amit Ray
    “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
    ― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
    tags: anxiety, awareness, awareness-quotes, breath, breathing, breathing-in-awareness, depression, depression-quotes, live-in-the-moment, living-in-the-moment, living-in-the-present, living-in-the-present-moment, living-life-to-the-fullest, meditation, meditations-quotes, mindfulness, peace, present-moment, relaxation, self-awareness, stress, stress-management, stress-relief, tension
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    Mandy Hale
    “Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: being-single, dating, finding-love, living-life-to-the-fullest, living-your-best-life, love, not-settling, positive-thinking, praying-for-love, relationships, single, single-life, single-woman, singleness, the-single-woman
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
    tags: living-life-to-the-fullest, the-present
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    Mandy Hale
    “Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: appreciation, attitude, believe, counting-your-blessings, dance, dancing, faith, faith-in-yourself, gratitude, happiness, happy-life, hope, journey-of-life, live-in-the-moment, living-a-happy-life, living-life-to-the-fullest, love, positive-thinking, seizing-the-day, smile, the-here-and-now, the-present, the-single-woman, trust, wish, your-journey
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “It doesn't matter how many people you meet in your life; you just need the real ones who accept you for who you are and help you become who you should be.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: authentic-living, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, living, living-life-to-the-fullest, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adversity, battles, beginnings, blog, classes, freedom, friendships, future, hanging-on, happiness, joy, letting-go, life, life-coach, living-life-to-the-fullest, moving-on, past, pinterest, positive-outlook, problems, relationships, relationships-101, starting-over, staying-positive, staying-positive-university, stayingpositiveu-com, success, trials, website
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    Rob Sheffield
    “When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
    ― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
    tags: death, music, remember, songs
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    Bob Dylan
    “He not busy being born is busy dying.”
    ― Bob Dylan
    tags: inspirational, lyrics, music, self-discovery, songs
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems
    tags: bittersweet, life, songs
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    “I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine”
    ― Taylor Swift
    tags: i-d-lie, love, lyrics, songs, taylor-swift, unknown-love
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    E.Y. Harburg
    “Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”
    ― Yip Harburg
    tags: music, singing, songs, thinking
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    Matt Haig
    “Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.”
    ― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
    tags: concert, concerts, music, music-quotes, musical, musical-quotes, song, songs
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    Kent M. Keith
    “ The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    ― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
    tags: forgiveness, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Anne Frank
    “Ever since I was a little girl and could barely talk, the word 'why' has lived and grown along with me. It's a well-known fact that children ask questions about anything and everything, since almost everything is new to them. That is especially true of me, and not just as a child. Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.
    I have to admit that it can be annoying sometimes, but I comfort myself with the thought that "You won't know until you ask," though by now I've asked so much that they ought to have made me a professor.
    When I got older, I noticed that not all questions can be asked and that many whys can never be answered. As a result, I tried to work things out for myself by mulling over my own questions. And I came to the important discovery that questions which you either can't or shouldn't ask in public, or questions which you can't put into words, can easily be solved in your own head. So the word 'why' not only taught me to ask, but also to think. And thinking has never hurt anyone. On the contrary, it does us all a world of good.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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    Albert Einstein
    “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, girl, makeup, world
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    Criss Jami
    “If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: attitude, bold, boldness, boldness-and-attitude, brave, bravery, commitment, consequences, courage, courageous, coward, face, guts, man-up, responsibility, running, running-away, stand-up, stand-up-for-yourself, standing, staying-strong, strength, strong
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    Megan Chance
    “You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”
    ― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
    tags: control, emotion, feel, feelings, madness, nightmares, running-away
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with— maybe you'll stay with yourself, too.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: brokenness, finding-yourself, fixing-a-broken-girl, healing, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, running-away, self-worth, stay
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    Holly Black
    “I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”
    ― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest
    tags: ben-evans, benjamin-evans, life, running-away
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    Kami Garcia
    “Don't run away.
    Im not running away. Im already gone.
    -Lena and Ethan”
    ― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness
    tags: running-away
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    Jennifer Elisabeth
    “If ever I was running, it was towards you.”
    ― Jennifer Elisabeth
    tags: anxiety, art, beach, born-ready, cape-cod, coming-of-age, constellations, depression, destiny, fate, friends, girls, growing, growing-up, healing, hope, inspiration, jennifer-elisabeth, learning, life, love, lovers, ocean, pray, prayer, red-thread, red-thread-of-destiny, red-thread-of-fate, running, running-away, self-acceptance, self-love, self-reflection, soul, soul-mates, stars, teenagers, teens, time, universe, wish
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