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#1

“The waters hold all heaven within their heart.”
― Jan Karon, In the Company of Others

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#2

“Remember what you do in life is merely a reflection of who you are as a Christian, one who loves and serves the Lord.”
― Rachel Hauck, Georgia on Her Mind

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“I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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“Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: fiction, mystery, nerdfighters, ya, young-adult

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“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: understanding-oneself-and-others

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#6

“I lean into him, because I'm cold and he's always warm. And because I like to remind him that I'm not afraid of him.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

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#7

“if a witch tries to influence a Christian believer with a magic spell, it will often fail to work, simply because the Lord watches over His children carefully. God will not allow the devil”
― William Schnoebelen, Wicca: Satan's Little White Lie

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#8

“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?

tags: fearlessness

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#9

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#10

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#11

“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: paraphrased

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#12

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#13

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness

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#14

“There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tell lies. You write lies that tell truths.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

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#15

“When people's faith in the collective intelligence increases, falls to the same extent their own individual sense of responsibility.”
― M.Z.Riffi

tags: intelligence

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#16

“The first person you should be careful not to fool is yourself. Because you are the easiest person to fool".”
― Richard Feynman

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#17

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

tags: books, power

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#18

“You are a child of God, and that means that there is great, shining beauty within you.”
― Elizabeth Camden, The Lady of Bolton Hill

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#19

“Joy is the best makeup.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

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#20

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

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#21

“Blameshifting and projecting their malignant traits onto their partners during conversations while using a false charismatic self to make their victims look like the "crazy" ones. It’s almost as if they hand off their own traits and shortcomings to their victims as if to say, “Here, take my pathology. I don’t want it.”
― Shahida Arabi, Becoming the Narcissist’s Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself

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#22

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#23

“How could I known then that failure then that failure of ambition is like a long lingering death and that disappoint with your life never goes away? It only grows stronger with the passage of time as the clock ticks off the remaining days of your life, and any residual, hope slips like sand through arthritic fingers.”
― Peter May

tags: clocks, disappointment, runaway, time, time-passing-slips-like-sand

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#24

“Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.”
― Joyce Meyer

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#25

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

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#26

“If you say you can or you can't you are right either way.” ‒ Henry Ford Quote”
― Michael Miller, Positive Thinking Quotes: 365 Inspirational, Affirmations and Success Quotes to Change Your Brain Change Your Life

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#27

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#28

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

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#29

“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

tags: inspirational

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#30

“I'm not a quitter. I'm a never-starter. There's a difference.”
― James Breakwell

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