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#1

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#2

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

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#3

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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#4

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

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#5

“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance

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#6

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

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#7

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#8

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

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#9

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

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#10

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck

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#11

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
― Alice Childress

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#12

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#13

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
― Henry Green

tags: highlight, revision, secrets, storytelling, style, writer, writers

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#14

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

tags: inspirational

2161 likes

#15

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

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#16

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

tags: inspirational

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#17

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#18

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

tags: life-truths, reality-check

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#19

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: life

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#20

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

tags: inspirational, life-lessons

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#21

“Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there and look.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins

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#22

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

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#23

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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#24

“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
― Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

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#25

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

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#26

“... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

tags: inspirational-attitude

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#27

“The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring

tags: death, death-and-humor, death-and-love, dying, loss

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#28

“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
― Vera Brittain

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#29

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

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#30

“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
― Vicki Baum, Ballerina

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