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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “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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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: truth
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Mark Twain
    “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: age
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    “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
    ― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
    tags: bible, love
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    Edith Pattou
    “And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.”
    ― Edith Pattou, East
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    Edith Pattou
    “That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.”
    ― Edith Pattou, East
    tags: inspiration
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  • #12
    James Moloney
    “My fate is my own; my heart remains free
    Not magic but wisdum reveals destiny.”
    ― James Moloney, The Book of Lies
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    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
    ― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
    tags: empathy, friends, friendship, inspirational
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  • #14
    “Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”
    ― Margaret Lee Runbeck
    tags: friendship
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    Mark Twain
    “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
    tags: writing
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Michael Cunningham
    “One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
    ― Michael Cunningham
    tags: life, on-fiction, writing
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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
    tags: life
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, books, re-reading, reading
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  • #23
    C.S. Lewis
    “I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
    tags: hell, love, safe
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    Jennifer Donnelly
    “Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.”
    ― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light
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    Jennifer Donnelly
    “Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.”
    ― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light
    tags: words-of-wisdom
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    Jennifer Donnelly
    “I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.”
    ― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light
    tags: books, fiction
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: authors, challenges, keys, writing
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Love is a great beautifier.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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