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“She had kept well behind the safety barrier her entire life, but now she was standing there at the edge of the precipice for the very first time, fumbling blindly with the realization that there were other ways to live, at how intense and rich life could be.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

tags: change-your-life, comfort-zone, paradigm-shift, transformation

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#2

“Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.”
― Cathy Lamb, A Different Kind of Normal

tags: adversity, inspirational-quote, overcoming-challenges-quotes, strong

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#3

“I want to live my life to its fullest potential. I want to embrace my own purpose, however large or small it may be. I want to find my own Nehru moments and take positive steps toward becoming the person I am meant to be. The journey will undoubtedly be a winding one, filled with surprises and setbacks as well as gifts. But I'm ready to embrace it fully, wherever it may take me.”
― Mallika Chopra, Living with Intent: My Somewhat Messy Journey to Purpose, Peace, and Joy

tags: believe-in-yourself, embracing-life, finding-yourself, journey-of-life, purposeful-living

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#4

“Maybe her husband was right: maybe change didn't necessarily mean disaster. Maybe the mess of life was the very thing she was supposed to enjoy instead of always fighting it, trying to impose order. The universe was trying to tell her something - was it, perhaps, to let go?”
― Wendy Francis, The Summer of Good Intentions

tags: accepting-change, control, letting-go, mess

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#5

“You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.”
― Katherine Ellison, Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention

tags: adhd-love, gratefulness, mindful-living, slowing-down

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#6

“Somewhere along the way we've gotten the message that the more we struggle and the more we suffer, the more valuable we will become and the more successful we'll eventually be. And so we overwork ourselves, overschedule ourselves, and become "busier than thou" because we think there's some sort of prize on the other side of the pain we cause ourselves. And you know what? There's no prize. All you get from suffering is more suffering.”
― Kate Northrup, Money, A Love Story: Untangle Your Financial Woes and Create the Life You Really Want

tags: challenges, overschedule, overwork, pain, struggle, success, suffering

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#7

“To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.”
― Jessica Fechtor, Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home

tags: aliveness, boldness, life-quotes

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#8

“Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can’t wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can’t.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

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#9

“Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control; you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.”
― Susan Meissner, A Bridge Across the Ocean

tags: control, identity, life-lessons, role

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#10

“It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.”
― Susan Meissner, A Bridge Across the Ocean

tags: be-yourself, identity, life-lessons, pretending

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#11

“My best advice is this - by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.”
― Robyn Carr, Any Day Now

tags: being-strong, life, life-lessons, trying-hard, winning

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#12

“It turns out the mark of a happy life isn't staying just one step ahead of the grim reaper. It's knowing you're strong.”
― Robyn Carr, Any Day Now

tags: being-strong, happy-life, life-lessons

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#13

“I don't know why we women believe that sacrificing our desires makes us more attractive to men. What on earth are we thinking? That someone who goes without her wishes deserves to be loved more than she who follows her dreams?”
― Nina George, The Little French Bistro

tags: empowerment-of-women, following-dreams, love, sacrifice-for-others

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#14

“I'd give up being a bitch, but I'm not a quitter.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

tags: bitch, fiesty, perseverance, self-improvement

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#15

“Having plans sounds like a good idea - until you have to put on clothes and leave your house.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

tags: humorous-quotes, planning, scheduling, social-life

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#16

“Truly being able to see the needs of others around you, that is a rare gift. Only when you embrace it will you start to learn who you are, and begin going after what you really want.”
― Wendy Mass, Finally

tags: goals-and-plans, listening-to-your-intuition, purpose-of-life, service, visionary

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#17

“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into it.”
― Gail Godwin, Grief Cottage

tags: childhood, growing-up

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#18

“Why do you think movies and fiction authors invent vampires, lottery winners, and soulmates? I'll tell you why: because watching someone brush their teeth, shop for sandwich meat, and change the toilet paper roll is as mind-numbing for the observer as it is for the observed. Problem is, we live the toilet paper life, not the vampire life.'

....'But we expect the vampires.”
― Ann Wertz Garvin, I Like You Just Fine When You're Not Around

tags: fiction, life, life-lessons, vampires

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#19

“Arthur thinks that, above all, aging means the abandonment of criticism and the taking on of compassionate acceptance.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Story of Arthur Truluv

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#20

“Everybody makes mistakes, sometimes even before we get up in the morning. We can’t help but make mistakes. The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Story of Arthur Truluv

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#21

“Oh. maybe little kids are trouble, sometimes, but only for a good reason: They are tired. They are hungry. They are afraid. He supposes a great many ills of adults might be cured by a nap or a good meal or a bit of timely reassurance. But adults complicate everything. They are by nature complicators. They learned to make things harder than they need to be and they learned to talk way too much.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Story of Arthur Truluv

tags: adults, children, understanding

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#22

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

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#23

“Know first who you are and then adore yourself accordingly.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

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#24

“I felt such a well of tenderness for this dear old body. Every piece of it proclaimed how tired it was, but it was lovely, too. Her history was written in it, in the stretch marks left by my father, in the surgery scar on her abdomen and the puckered burn scar on the inside of her left arm, in the simple toll of ninety years of fighting gravity.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Almost Sisters

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#25

“People think they have to physically die before going to heaven or starting new lives, depending on their religions. The truth is that you can start a new life anytime you choose, as easily as waking from a dream.”
― Holly Robinson, Folly Cove

tags: inspirational

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#26

“We think of our emotions as being the result of something happening to us, but happiness is a choice.”
― Holly Robinson, Folly Cove

tags: choices-and-attitude, emotions, happiness

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#27

“There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.”
― Veronica Henry, How to Find Love in a Bookshop

tags: book, books, reading

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#28

“The whole point of life was you couldn't ever be sure what would happen next. Sometimes what happened was good, sometimes not, but there were always surprises.”
― Veronica Henry, How to Find Love in a Bookshop

tags: life-lessons, surprises, the-unknown

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#29

“Home isn't a safe place where everything stays the same; it's a place where you are safe and loved despite nothing staying the same.”
― Susan Meissner, As Bright as Heaven

tags: historical-fiction, home, love

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#30

“It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

tags: destiny, life, planning

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