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    Joseph Fort Newton
    “Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
    ― Joseph Fort Newton
    tags: bigotry, bridges, compassion, culture, culture-wars, cultures, empathy, hate, hatred, inspirational, intolerance, love, men, misattributed, misattributed-to-isaac-newton, racism, separation, sympathy, tolerance, understanding, walls
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    Judith Viorst
    “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
    ― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
    tags: chocolate, strength
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    Maxim Gorky
    “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
    ― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays
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    Lawrence Durrell
    “Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
    ― Lawrence Durrell, Justine
    tags: silence
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    Sherman Alexie
    “I was emotionally erect.”
    ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
    tags: emotional, humour
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    Lois Lowry
    “It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
    ― Lois Lowry
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days
    tags: foolishness, inspirational
    1306 likes

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  • #9
    Mark Strand
    “Each moment is a place
    you've never been.”
    ― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems
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  • #10
    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    Bernard Malamud
    “There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
    ― Bernard Malamud
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    Stanley Kunitz
    “The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.”
    ― Stanley Kunitz
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    R.A. Salvatore
    “It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
    ― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: change, grief, loss, revelation
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  • #15
    Nelson Mandela
    “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: change, education
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    Barack Obama
    “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: change, inspirational
    3300 likes

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  • #17
    Jay Asher
    “You can't stop the future
    You can't rewind the past
    The only way to learn the secret
    ...is to press play.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
    tags: change, future, play, rewind, secret, stop
    3235 likes

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  • #18
    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
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    Eric Roth
    “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
    ― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
    tags: benjamin-button, change, courage, time
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: change, growth, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, life-lessons
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    Wayne W. Dyer
    “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
    ― Wayne W. Dyer
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: change, character-defining, character-quote, growth, growth-life, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspiring, learning, life-and-living, random, stubbornness, unpredictable
    985 likes

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    Milton Berle
    “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
    ― Milton Berle
    tags: change, opportunity, self-determination, wisdom
    754 likes

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  • #24
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
    tags: change, nicolas-sparks, the-last-song
    280 likes

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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
    tags: change
    321 likes

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  • #26
    Ogden Nash
    “Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
    And that's what parents were created for.”
    ― Ogden Nash
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  • #27
    Helen Oyeyemi
    “Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like.”
    ― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox
    177 likes



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