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    Trenton Lee Stewart
    “Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?”
    ― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society
    tags: children-s-lit, family
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    Karen Blixen
    “All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.”
    ― Isak Dinesen
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    Jean Vanier
    “An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.”
    ― Jean Vanier
    tags: ethics, inspirational, l-arche
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “The beginning is always today.”
    ― Mary Shelley
    tags: beginning, fresh-start, start-over, today
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
    tags: confidence
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    Jon Stewart
    “Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.”
    ― Jon Stewart
    tags: christianity, humor, religion
    658 likes

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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: buddism, kindness, religion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational-faith
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    Greg Kincaid
    “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.”
    ― Greg Kincaid
    tags: christmas, endurance, inspirational, labor, love, persistence, practice, resilience
    154 likes

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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    tags: civilization, taxes
    142 likes

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    Albert Schweitzer
    “A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: encouragement, goodness, inspirational, spiritual-growth
    139 likes

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    Ezra Pound
    “It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: cynicisim, despair, difficulty, fear, optimism, poetry, pound
    74 likes

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    Muhammad Iqbal
    “From love's plectrum arises
    the song of the string of life
    Love is the light of life
    love is the fire of life”
    ― Allama Iqbal
    tags: iqbal, light, love, poetry
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    Muhammad Iqbal
    “The new world is as yet
    behind the veil of destiny
    In my eyes, however
    its dawn has been unveiled”
    ― Allama Iqbal
    tags: dreams, future, iqbal, poetry, revolution, visions
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    Kathleen Thompson Norris
    “Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. ”
    ― Kathleen Thompson Norris, Hands Full of Living
    tags: books
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: courage, inspirational
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    David Whyte
    “...wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen.”
    ― David Whyte
    tags: self-doubt, soul, spirit
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    Wallace Stevens
    “The way through the world
    Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.”
    ― Wallace Stevens
    tags: journey, life, poetry, spirit
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
    tags: inspirational
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    “The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.”
    ― Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    “We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.”
    ― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics
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    Horace Greeley
    “Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.”
    ― Horace Greeley
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    Horace Greeley
    “The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
    ― Horace Greeley
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: different-perspectives, diversity, empathy, expanding-boundaries, interests, white-chicks
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