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    Diana Peterfreund
    “I found the hum of his computer rather soothing, but it was the complete lack of unicorn carcasses that really pulled the room together.”
    ― Diana Peterfreund, Rampant
    tags: décor, unicorns
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    Brené Brown
    “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
    ― Brene Brown
    tags: belonging, courage, inspirational, light, love, vulnerability
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    Eric Micha'el Leventhal
    “We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.”
    ― Eric Micha'el Leventhal
    tags: acceptance-of-oneself, awareness, fear, inspiration, inspirational, love, power, self-acceptance, self-awareness, self-love, surrender, trust, vulnerability
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    Vironika Tugaleva
    “Amazing relationships aren't about making one perfect choice in your choice of partner. They're about the infinite amount of choices you make in each conflict, each conversation, and each moment to open yourself and to stay open, even when it's hard.”
    ― Vironika Tugaleva
    tags: choices, conflict, love, partners, passion, relationships, soul-mates, vulnerability
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    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness
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    Joel Friedlander
    “There are a lot of conventions, a vocabulary and a set of practices and assumptions that underlie most professional book design. Since design is important to the eventual success of your book whether you attempt to do it yourself or hire it out, it pays to know something about those conventions and assumptions. After all, we don’t want anything getting in the way of your communication with your readers. You’ve got a message for them, a story to tell, or ideas to spread. That’s what’s important.”
    ― Joel Friedlander, The Self-Publisher's Ultimate Resource Guide
    tags: book-cover, book-design, communication, design, story, typefaces
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    Jonas Saul
    “We leave our home,” she pointed upwards, “and come here. When we’re done down here in the swamp of humanity, whatever you want to call it, we go home. To our real home. We all do. No choice. Whether you believe it or not.”
    ― Jonas Saul, The Sarah Roberts Series Vol. 7-9
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    Talena Winters
    “For the first time in years, she felt a yearning for something different, something real. Something more than the life she had.”
    ― Talena Winters, Finding Heaven
    tags: abuse-survivors, inspirational, overcoming, women-s-fiction
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    Talena Winters
    “Desire had never done anything good in her life, so she had divorced it years ago.”
    ― Talena Winters, Finding Heaven
    tags: abuse-survivor, brokenness, cold-heart, desire, frozen-heart, womens-fiction
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    Talena Winters
    “She could do this. She was stronger now. This was her chance to prove it.”
    ― Talena Winters, Finding Heaven
    tags: abuse-survivor, abuse-survivors, becoming-stronger, changing, healing, healing-abuse, healing-the-past, overcoming
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    Talena Winters
    “Steve's laugh was brittle. “Sarah, we all have our own wounds. We’re all broken in our own way. Mine might look different than yours, but they were deep enough to enlarge my heart.”
    ― Talena Winters, Finding Heaven
    tags: abuse, abuse-survivor, broken, broken-people, grief, loss, wounds
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    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Jack Kerouac
    “I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    Herman Melville
    “There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath...”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: mermaid, mermaids, moby-dick, ocean, sea, siren, sirens, supernatural
    88 likes

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    Sanober Khan
    “words
    like mysterious mermaids
    come and live permanently
    in the soft sweeps
    and scars of my skin.”
    ― Sanober Khan
    tags: indian-authors, mermaid, mysterious, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, scars, words
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    Tara Westover
    “The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self.
    You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
    I call it an education”
    ― Tara Westover, Educated
    tags: inspirational
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    Tara Westover
    “An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.”
    ― Tara Westover, Educated
    tags: education, growth, inspirational, life, personal-growth
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    “Come, little leaves," said the Wind one day, "Come to the meadows with me and play. Put on your dresses of red and gold; For Summer is past, and the days grow cold.”
    ― George Cooper
    tags: autumn, fall, leaves, wind, winter
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.”
    ― Cornelia Funke
    tags: cornelia, funke, inkdeath, inkheart, inkspell, words
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    Michael Ende
    “A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.”
    ― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
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    Mandy Hale
    “You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: adversity, authenticity, being-yourself, boldness, breaking-the-rules, chances, dance, dancing, finding-yourself, fitting-in, getting-older, go-against-the-grain, happiness, journey-of-life, laughter, lessons, lessons-learned, life-lessons, living-life-on-your-own-terms, loving-yourself, non-conformity, overcoming-adversity, positive-thinking, road-less-traveled, rules, standing-out, taking-chances, the-single-woman, uniqueness
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    Danny Wallace
    “Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.”
    ― Danny Wallace, Yes Man
    tags: taking-chances
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: anxiety, bravery, business, career-changes, choices, confidence, dating, education, fear, foolish, future, goals, paranoia, rising-above-it, scenarios, single, staying-positive, taking-chances
    63 likes

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  • #25
    “Even the smallest changes in our daily routine can create incredible ripple effects that expand our vision of what is possible.”
    ― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
    tags: attitude, belief-quotes, comfort-zone, danger, extraordinary, faith-quotes, fear-quote, health, inspirational-quotes, law-of-attraction-books, law-of-attraction-quotes, life-quotes, love-quotes, optimal, optimism, positive-thinking, relationship-quotes, spiritual-quotes, success-quotes, taking-chances, taking-risk, unknown-quotes
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    Cheryl Strayed
    “Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.”
    ― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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  • #27
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: focus, future, happiness, happy, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, letting-go-of-the-past, life, life-and-living, life-quotes, live, living, living-in-the-present, living-life, living-life-to-the-fullest, living-now, worry
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  • #29
    Mother Teresa
    “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
    ― Mother Theresa
    tags: carpe-diem, future, past, present, time
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  • #30
    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    ― Buckminster Fuller
    tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement
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  • #31
    L. Frank Baum
    “You had the power all along, my dear.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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