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#1

“That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

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#2

“This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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#3

“Buddha’s words: A tree is a wondrous thing that shelters, feeds, and protects all living things. It even offers shade to the axmen who destroy it.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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#4

“and - though books cannot save you from everything - I hope that you are still reading.”
― Abigail Dean, Girl A

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#5

“That was the problem with coming home: you also had to come to the self which resided there.”
― Abigail Dean, Girl A

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#6

“To them, the past was a sickness which my siblings still carried; you could catch it from a conversation.”
― Abigail Dean, Girl A

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#7

“Oliver, it transpired, was addicted to alcohol and cocaine, and Gabriel was addicted primarily to Oliver; then, as an inevitable accompaniment, to Oliver’s own addictions, at first for Oliver’s approval, and later – as tended to be the case – because he couldn’t stop doing them.”
― Abigail Dean, Girl A

tags: addiction, relationships, unhealthy-relationships

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#8

“People who cannot connect through work, friendships, or family usually find other ways of bonding, as through illnesses, lawsuits, or family feuds. Anything is preferable to that godforsaken sense of irrelevance and alienation.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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#9

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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#10

“emotion is not opposed to reason;”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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#11

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

tags: peace, self-acceptance

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#12

“I knew the relationship she’d had with Daphne was forbidden, but it hadn’t occurred to me that most women like Veronica married eventually. Daphne wouldn’t have, but Veronica, I could see, was different. She was more willing to wear a mask.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

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#13

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#14

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth.”
― Línjì Yìxuán

tags: buddhism, lin-chi, linchi, línjì, mindfulness, thích-nhất-hạnh

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#15

“I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health.”
― Voltaire

tags: choice, happiness, health

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#16

“Because certain things only come into focus when a person is gone. It’s sad but true. You need memory and loss to polish your thoughts.”
― Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

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#17

“It seems to me that your oldest friends can offer a glimpse of who you were from a time before you had a sense of yourself.”
― Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

tags: friendship, self

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#18

“Perhaps a best friend is someone who... holds the story of your life in mind. Sometimes in music a melodic line is so beautiful the notes feel inevitable; you can anticipate the next note through the long rest. Maybe that is friendship. A best friend holds your story in mind so notes don't have to be repeated.”
― Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

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#19

“Neighbor seems to me a flexible word. You can say "She's my neighbor." and people will think you mean she's your friend. But if something goes wrong, you can say, "Oh I don't really know her. She's just my neighbor," and everyone still knows what you mean.”
― Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

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#20

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France

tags: animals, love, pets

1067 likes

#21

“Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]”
― Desmond Tutu

tags: argument, debate, discussion, persuasion, shouting

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#22

“I could live without television, but not without books.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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#23

“continuing her vigil. She’ll wait as long as it takes. Both phases of parenthood – the newborn years and the almost-adult ones – are bookended by sleep deprivation, though for different reasons.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

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#24

“Just don't ever tell yourself that you didn't know.... That would be the worst crime of all.”
― John Boyne, The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

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#25

“Don't you ever think,' he asked cautiously, 'that it would be better to be a bully than to be bullied? At least that way no one could ever hurt you.'

Katarina turned to him in amazement. 'No,' she said definitively, shaking her head. 'No Pieter, I never think that, not for a moment.”
― John Boyne, The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

tags: bully, doubt, violence

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#26

“Collars, trench coats or jackboots – uniforms allow us to exercise our cruelty without ever feeling guilt.”
― John Boyne, The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

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#27

“Maybe that was the trick to life: to notice all the tiny moments in the day when everything else fell away and, for a split second, or maybe even a few seconds, you had no worries, only pleasure, only appreciation of what was right in front of you.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

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#28

“Yes, it is. It’s, like, when someone has an affair, why does the wife always hate the other woman? Why doesn’t she hate her husband? He’s the one who’s betrayed her, he’s the one who swore to love her and keep her and whatever forever and ever. Why isn’t he the one who gets shoved off a fucking cliff?”
― Paula Hawkins, Into the Water

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#29

“She felt it when she woke, not a presence but an absence.”
― Paula Hawkins, Into the Water

tags: absence

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#30

“She had never realized before her life was torn apart how awkward grief was, how inconvenient for everyone with whom the mourner came into contact. At first it was acknowledged and respected and deferred to. But after a while it got in the way—of conversation, of laughter, of normal life.”
― Paula Hawkins, Into the Water

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