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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
    4560 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: stories, storytelling
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  • #4
    “Whatever colour the pots, the kettle may indeed be black.”
    ― H.V.D. Dyson
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
    12723 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
    13379 likes

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    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
    ― Georgia O'Keeffe
    tags: ambition, carpe-diem, fearlessness
    24 likes

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  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
    4962 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: books, favorite-books
    1612 likes

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    Suzanne Collins
    “You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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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
    10477 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
    12466 likes

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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
    42321 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
    49879 likes

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    J.S. Burke
    “Who knows where a thought will lead?" Scree in The Dragon Dreamer”
    ― J.S. Burke, The Dragon Dreamer
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    J.S. Burke
    “Everything worth doing starts with a dream." Arak (The Dragon Dreamer)”
    ― J.S. Burke, The Dragon Dreamer
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    Benita J. Thompson
    “Would you have me forever carry hate for one who is dead?”
    ― Benita J. Prins
    tags: death, forgiveness, love
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage
    tags: independent-thought, individualism, preference
    232 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
    3462 likes

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    Andrea Barrett
    “We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
    ― Andrea Barrett
    1343 likes

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  • #22
    Max Lucado
    “No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.”
    ― Max Lucado
    tags: bettering-the-world, encouragement, inspiration
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  • #23
    Amy Tan
    “But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.
    -Jing-mei”
    ― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
    105 likes

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    Charles Ray
    “Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.”
    ― Charles Ray, Dead Men Don't Answer
    tags: art, culture, storytelling, writing
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    Patrick Ness
    “Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    1394 likes

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  • #26
    Gillian Bronte Adams
    “Sure. I generally make it a point not to refuse anyone with a weapon in my face.”
    ― Gillian Bronte Adams, Songkeeper
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  • #27
    Carey Corp
    “Yoga’s nothing but young girls twistin’ themselves into pretzels and prayin’ to the devil.”
    ― Carey Corp, Destined for Doon
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    Salman Rushdie
    “What would a respectful political cartoon look like?”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: charlie-hebdo, freedom-of-expression, political-cartoons
    3 likes

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    George Washington
    “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech
    913 likes

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    S.E. Hinton
    “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
    ― S.E. Hinton
    tags: friends, friendship
    4306 likes



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