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    Jack London
    “I would rather be ashes than dust!
    I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
    I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
    The function of man is to live, not to exist.
    I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
    I shall use my time.”
    ― Jack London
    tags: life, meteor
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    Jack London
    “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
    ― Jack London
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    Jack London
    “A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
    ― Jack London
    tags: charity, dogs, sharing
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    Mitch Albom
    “All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    tags: profound
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Gayle Forman
    “You don’t share me. You own me.”
    ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went
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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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    J.M. Barrie
    “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: goodbye
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    J.M. Barrie
    “For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face.
    "So, Pan," said Hook at last, "this is all your doing."
    "Ay, James Hook," came the stern answer, "it is all my doing."
    "Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom."
    "Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: courage, duel
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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  • #11
    “Semper ubi sub ubi (Latin for "Always wear underwear")”
    ― Bryanna Lee
    tags: humor
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  • #12
    “It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.”
    ― Kevin Sullivan
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  • #13
    “Dear God, be good to me. The sea is so wide and my boat is so small. ”
    ― Kathy Harrison, One Small Boat: The Story of a Little Girl, Lost Then Found
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    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives.

    Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.”
    ― Dr Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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    “It's supposed to hurt - that's how you know it meant something!”
    ― Rick Elice
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  • #16
    Courage, dear heart.
    “Courage, dear heart.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    tags: aslan, narnia
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: joy, sorrow
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: death, god
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: happiness, life
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: goodness, simplicity, truth
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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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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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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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    T.S. Eliot
    “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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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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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
    9857 likes



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