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    Langston Hughes
    “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
    ― Langston Hughes
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    “Leave someone who hates you as much as you hate yourself.”
    ― Michael J. Bennett
    tags: relationship-quotes, self-esteem
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    Pat Conroy
    “The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.”
    ― Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir
    tags: teachers
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    Pat Conroy
    “Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?”
    ― Pat Conroy
    tags: inspirational, life, life-is-short, live-in-the-moment
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    Pat Conroy
    “I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.”
    ― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
    tags: friendliness, smiling
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    Pat Conroy
    “I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.”
    ― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
    tags: complacency, potential
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    Pat Conroy
    “But, as I watch this film, I often think that the boy did not know what he was really running toward, that it was not the end zone which awaited him. Somewhere in that ten second dash the running boy turned to metaphor and the older man could see it where the boy couldn not. He would be good at running, always good at it, and he would always run away from the things that hurt him, from the people who loved him, and from the friends empowered to save him. But where do we run when there are no crowds, no lights, no end zones? Where does a man run? the coach said, studying the films of himself as a boy. Where can a man run when he has lost the excuse of games? Where can a man run or where can he hide when he looks behind him and sees that he is only pursued by himself?”
    ― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
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    Mildred Armstrong Kalish
    “Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give "permission" to read. In other words, our elders positioned reading as a privilege - a much sought-after prize, granted only to those goodhardworkers who earned it. How clever of them.”
    ― Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
    tags: adults, behavior, chores, duties, elders, modification, permission, privilege, prize, read, reading
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    “I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; with them, forgive yourself. There may be hope for me yet.”
    ― Anthony Ervin
    tags: competition, memoir, olympians, rebuilding, swimming, zen-and-the-art-of-happiness
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  • #10
    “I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.”
    ― Bill Walton
    tags: basketball, bill-walton, child-rearing, coach-john-wooden, family-relationships, ucla
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    David Kushner
    “Death leaves trails of mutes.”
    ― David Kushner, Alligator Candy: A Memoir
    tags: grief-and-loss
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    Carolyn Parkhurst
    “Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.”
    ― Carolyn Parkhurst, Harmony
    tags: meaning-of-life, personal-development, writing
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    Carolyn Parkhurst
    “Imagine that your child is born with wings.”
    ― Carolyn Parkhurst, Harmony
    tags: atypical-nerual-development, autism, child-development
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    Pat Conroy
    “I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.”
    ― Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
    tags: careers-in-art, censorship, literature, teaching
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    Pat Conroy
    “I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.”
    ― Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
    tags: censorship, heroes, literature-books, teaching
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    Pat Conroy
    “I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.”
    ― Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
    tags: english-language, english-teachers, literature, love-of-reading
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    Pat Conroy
    “I wish nights like this weren't so fragile and slippery and impossible to nail down for study in one's leisure. But the really great nights pass through you like whispers or shadows. They shimmer, but don't adhere.”
    ― Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
    tags: celebration, love-of-life, memory, the-time-of-your-life
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    “A warrior is defined by his scars, not his medals.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: greatness-quotes, inspirational-quotations, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspirational-quotes-about-life, inspirational-quotes-motivation, life-lesson-quotes, life-lessons-quotations, life-lessons-quotes, life-quotations, life-quote, life-quotes, life-quotes-and-sayings, life-quotes-inspirational-quotes, medals, motivation-quotes, motivational-quotation, motivational-quotations, motivational-quote, motivational-quote-of-the-day, motivational-quotes, motivational-quotes-for-women, pain-quotes, scar, scars, success-quotes, survivor, survivors, warrior-quotes
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  • #19
    “Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be taken away.”
    ― Amanda Ward Eyre
    tags: crime-and-punishment, death-and-dying, grace, peace-of-mind
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  • #20
    “In the early morning, Gatestown seemed asleep. The sky was wide and filled with clouds. It hovered blue and vast, over the yellow land.”
    ― Amanda Ward Eyre
    tags: beautiful-world, beautiful-writing, common-beauty
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