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#1

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

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#2

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: humor, laughter

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#3

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

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#4

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
― Ruth Reichl

tags: community, eating, food, life, sharing

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#5

“Living is hard--dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What's so difficult about that? Nothing really--except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Ruin

tags: romance

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#6

“It doesn’t have to end, does it?”
“I hope it never ends.”
― Cassia Leo, The Way We Fall

tags: ending, love, stories

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#7

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

tags: diamond, soul

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#9

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books-reading

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#10

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

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#11

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

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#12

“‎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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#13

“I love you." Who said that? Shit! It was me.”
― M. Mabie, Fade In

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#14

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

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#15

“He’d left me a song, a pair of shoes, and a reason to fly. It was enough.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

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#16

“Rough rides are smoother when you’ve got a passenger who understands the road.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

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#17

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

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#18

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational

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#19

“Life doesn’t always hand you the happy ever after you dreamt of. Sometimes, living happily ever after is a choice, not a given. Live happy with what you have – not what you thought you would have.”
― Kasey Millstead, Cowboy Town

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#20

“I miss him. I miss him so bad it hurts. My chest aches when I think of him. But I can’t let myself be that girl – the girl that just forgives someone for betraying her, just because she loves him.”
― Kasey Millstead, Fighting to Stay

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#21

“Is there a word for being emptier than empty? That’s what I am.”
― Kasey Millstead, Fighting to Stay

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#22

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

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#23

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

tags: education, experience, wisdom

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#24

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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#25

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

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#26

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: truth

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#27

“I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

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#28

“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

tags: mistakes

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#29

“Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

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#30

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

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#31

“Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello

tags: decisions, inspirational, life

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