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“A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion, to appreciating other cultures, to realizing what possibilities the world held for people who kept at life despite the odds.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, Solomon's Oak

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#2

“We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Front

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#3

“It's not who you come from, but who's standing right beside you, that counts most.”
― Emilie Richards

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#4

“You can never recover from losing a person you love, but you can find a way to let it be part of your life rather than letting it take over every part of you”
― Darien Gee, Friendship Bread

tags: grief, love, relationships

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#5

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
― Shania Twain, From This Moment On

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#6

“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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“Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.”
― Glenda Millard, The Tender Moments of Saffron Silk

tags: books

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#8

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

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#9

“What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: inspiring, success

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#10

“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
― Brad Paisley

tags: new-year

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#11

“No two persons ever read the same book.”
― Edmund Wilson

tags: books, perspective, reading

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#12

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”
― Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, love

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#13

“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

tags: god, rely

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#14

“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: books, reading

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#15

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#16

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#17

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

tags: hope, imagination, inspirational

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#18

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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#19

“Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.”
― Jackie French, author

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#20

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#21

“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: companionship, marriage, silence, talk

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#22

“decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you’re the one in charge of the universe.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

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#23

“You know how it is. The storms come and it’s water and wind as far as the eye can see for a bit. But winds calm and the waters drain. We find our feet again, and the ground under us sprouts a new crop of seed. That is always the way of it. I don’t suppose this storm will be any different.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

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#24

“The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

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#25

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

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#26

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water

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#27

“I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.”
― Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones

tags: craig-silvey, jasper-jones, knowledge, life, understanding

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#28

“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."

[Keynote Address, University of the Arts, 134th Commencement (Philadelphia, PA, May 17, 2012)]”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: creative-process, identity, individuality, life, writing

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#29

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

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#30

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

tags: silence

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