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    Louise Penny
    “Where there is love there is courage,
    where there is courage there is peace,
    where there is peace there is God.
    And when you have God, you have everything.”
    ― Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling
    tags: courage, god, peace
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    Ina Garten
    “You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.”
    ― Ina Garten
    tags: food-love, humor
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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    Karen Blixen
    “When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”
    ― Isak Dinesen
    tags: hope, inspirational, perseverance
    132 likes

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    Pope John Paul II
    “Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
    ― Pope John Paul II
    tags: courage, gospel, inspirational
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  • #6
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
    21277 likes

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    Lou Holtz
    “It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
    ― Lou Holtz
    tags: inspiration, motivation
    4833 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
    10473 likes

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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: books
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60257 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: found, instructions, lost, name
    85 likes

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    Anthony Trollope
    “What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
    ― Anthony Trollope, The Warden
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    Pope John Paul II
    “Know what you are talking about.”
    ― Pope John Paul II
    tags: knowledge, language
    143 likes

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    Thomas Carlyle
    “All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle
    tags: books, literacy, reading
    166 likes

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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “In my dreams, I never have an age.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: age, dreams
    279 likes

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    Mother Teresa
    “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: compassion, connecting, humanity, inspirational, love, sharing
    2423 likes

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    Julia Child
    “Life itself is the proper binge.”
    ― Julia Child
    tags: food, life
    170 likes

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    Julia Child
    “Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
    ― Julia Child
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    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
    ― Buckminster R. Fuller
    336 likes

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  • #21
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: decisions, love, stars, taking-chances
    2982 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    1841 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wisely started with a map.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: writing
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    Ovid
    “Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
    ― Ovid, Heroides
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    Mark Strand
    “Each moment is a place
    you've never been.”
    ― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems
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    Julie Orringer
    “And what if I fail?"
    "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.”
    ― Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge
    48 likes

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    Irving Stone
    “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
    ― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
    tags: books, friendship
    4243 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    ― Jane Austen
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
    5372 likes



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