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#1

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#2

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

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#3

“It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, ‘You must do this. I can't.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: encouragement, inspirational

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#4

“Give what you cannot keep, to gain what you cannot loose.”
― Jim Elliot

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#5

“When times are good, be happy. But when times are bad, consider; God has made the one as well as the other.”
― Ecclesiastes 7:14

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#6

“I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song.”
― Isaiah 12:2

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#7

“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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#8

“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

tags: fellowship, gamgee, hobbit, samwise, tolkien

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#9

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
― Jim Elliott

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#10

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: characters, dreams, touchstones

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#11

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational

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#12

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door

tags: carpe-diem, challenges, enjoy-life, life, risk-taking

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#13

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational

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#14

“Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: elvish, greetings

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#15

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: writing-advice

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#16

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

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#17

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

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#18

“Atticus, he was real nice."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: inspirational

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#19

“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

tags: life

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#20

“Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.”
― Mary Papas

tags: authors, writing

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#21

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

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#22

“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

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#23

“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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#24

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

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#25

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

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#26

“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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#27

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

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#28

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

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#29

“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
― Jose Rizal

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#30

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

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