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#1

“If you Google “How do I write a book?” you’ll get a million hits, but here’s the dirty secret: It’s just math. It’s not even hard math—it’s first-grade addition. Write three pages a day, every day. In a hundred days, you’ll have three hundred pages. Type “The End.” Done.”
― Joe Hill, Full Throttle

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#2

“Any time your child pushes your buttons, he’s showing you an unresolved issue from your own childhood.”
― Laura Markham, Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting

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#3

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” —F. M. Alexander”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

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#4

“We are all stardust and stories.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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#5

“He has wondered lately if that's all living really is—one long goodbye to those we love.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

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#6

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#7

“When we see the Earth from space, we see ourselves as a whole. We see the unity, and not the divisions. It is such a simple image with a compelling message; one planet, one human race.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

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#8

“It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.”
― Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

tags: time-management

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#9

“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

tags: balance, finding-yourself, inspirational, need, satisfaction, truth, want, who-we-are

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#10

“I realized pretty early on that the who didn’t really matter so much. That anybody who listens to me, I end up loving them just a little”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

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#11

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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#12

“The universe doesn't allow perfection.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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#13

“I remember every word ever said to me." That was a lie. Who would want that? Most of it I delete from permanent memory.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

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#14

“A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

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#15

“Just because we mess up doesn’t mean all the lessons we learned are undone. Healing can be imperfect.”
― Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

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#16

“We become free by transforming ourselves from unaware victims of the past into responsible individuals in the present, who are aware of our past and are thus able to live with it.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

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#17

“The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

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#18

“The belief that the people around us will reciprocate in proportion to what we give them is called "trust.”
― Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

tags: relationships, trust

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#19

“Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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#20

“Let us fight for every woman and every man to have the opportunity to live healthy, secure lives, full of opportunity and love. We are all time travellers, journeying together into the future. But let us work together to make that future a place we want to visit.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

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#21

“I want people, when they realize they have been wrong about the world, to feel not embarrassment, but that childlike sense of wonder, inspiration, and curiosity that I remember from the circus, and that I still get every time I discover I have been wrong: “Wow, how is that even possible?”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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#22

“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: goodness, heart, life, living

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#23

“Teach her to reject likeability. Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

tags: good-girl

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#24

“Isn’t it nice … once you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

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#25

“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
― Stephen King , The Dark Tower

tags: happy-endings

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#26

“I got paralyzed by things. I’m pretty sure that ‘I hate uncertainty’ was my first full sentence as a baby.”
― Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

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#27

“For most of us, “being busy” is code for being functionally overwhelmed.”
― Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future

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#28

“The answers to making it, to me, are a lot more universal than anyone's race or gender, and center on having a tolerance for delayed gratification, a passion for the craft, and a willingness to fail.”
― Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

tags: success

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#29

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability

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#30

“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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