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#1

“Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

tags: alone, christian, fight, inspirational, lord

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#2

“Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

tags: christian, faith, inspirational

116 likes

#3

“I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

tags: anne-of-green-gables

426 likes

#4

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, Waterfall

233 likes

#5

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality

3507 likes

#6

“You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight.”
― Michelle Moran, The Heretic Queen

94 likes

#7

“there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change”
― Michelle Moran

10 likes

#8

“Sometimes the heart tells us to venture where the mind fears to tread.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, Waterfall

114 likes

#9

“One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”
― George Sand, Correspondance, 1812-1876; Volume 5

1376 likes

#10

“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death

tags: captain, fate, master

2291 likes

#11

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: books, castle, self

4145 likes

#12

“Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.”
― Michelle Moran, Nefertiti

tags: eternity

40 likes

#13

“Anne laughed.

"I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

tags: love

787 likes

#14

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

1322 likes

#15

“I am done living my life in the confines of others' dreams, waiting to live my own.”
― Anne Osterlund, Aurelia

124 likes

#16

“You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so...”
― Michelle Moran, Nefertiti

tags: change-the-desert

46 likes

#17

“You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.”
― Michelle Moran, The Heretic Queen

30 likes

#18

“My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart.”
― Michelle Moran, Nefertiti

27 likes

#19

“A line is a fuse
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky

795 likes

#20

“If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.”
― Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

1121 likes

#21

“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

1209 likes

#22

“Fantasizing about an Italian hottie was far better than my normal dreams.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, Waterfall

tags: young-adult

63 likes

#23

“How good it felt, to do some good, here and there. Perhaps this was what it meant to be an adult. To grab the opportunity at hand, make the most of the day, regardless of what it looked like.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, Waterfall

34 likes

#24

“What could I do, to make the most of this day, whether I was in my own day, or this one? What amazing history was I seeing firsthand? Would I embrace it, instead of crying and whining? Was it in me to be grateful for my situation? Truly in me?”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, Waterfall

19 likes

#25

“A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”
― Ogden Nash, The Private Dining-room and Other Verses

tags: dog, door

622 likes

#26

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life

2733 likes

#27

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

tags: life, luxury

1285 likes

#28

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: happiness

4133 likes

#29

“It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.”
― Kevin Sullivan

586 likes

#30

“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: labels, names, power-of-words

668 likes

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