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“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.”
― Shanti

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“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement

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#3

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: power-of-words

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#4

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

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#5

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”
― Jim Rohn

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#6

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
― John Burroughs

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#7

“Perhaps you are a clockwork girl. Perhaps Mortmain’s warlock father built you, and now Mortmain seeks the secret of how to create such a perfect facsimile of life when all he can build are hideous monstrosities. Perhaps all that beats beneath your chest is a heart made of metal.’
Tessa drew in a breath, feeling momentarily dizzy. His soft voice was so convincing, and yet--’No,’ she said sharply. ‘You forget, I remember my childhood. Mechanical creatures do not change or grow. Nor would that explain my ability.’
‘I know,’ said Will with a grin that flashed white in the darkness. ‘I only wanted to see if I could convince you.’
Tessa looked at him steadily. ‘I am not the one who has no heart.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: clockwork, clockwork-prince, mortmain, steampunk, tessa-gray, the-infernal-devices, tid, wild-unrest, will-herondale

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#8

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#9

“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: death, war

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#10

“It was strange, I reflected, as we went out into the golden evening of the Byzantine streets, that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

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#11

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#12

“Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

tags: friends, humor

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#13

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

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“Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment.
'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’
...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: stars

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#15

“Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

tags: teddy

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#16

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#17

“There is something horrible about a flower;
This, broken in my hand, is one of those
He threw it in just now; it will not live another hour;
There are thousands more; you do not miss a rose.”
― Charlotte Mew

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#18

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
― Mary Anne Radmacher

tags: courage, perseverance, tenacity

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#19

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

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#20

“Quote words that affirm
all men and women are your
brothers and sisters.”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

tags: agape-love, angel-of-healing, conflict-resolution, ethics-and-moral-philosophy, global-village, haiku, haikus, hatred, human-rights, intolerance, love, middle-east-conflicts, national-poetry-month, peace-movement, philosophy, poem-in-your-pocket-day, poetry, racism, sacred-teachings, spirituality, unconditional-love, war, wisdom, world-poetry-day

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#21

“Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: interview, joke, secrets

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#22

“Judging books by their covers is seriously underrated, and any book nerd who claims never to have done it is probably lying.”
― Amy Elizabeth Smith, All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane

tags: books, covers, humor

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#23

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

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“I have two minds about everything. Side A(merican) and side B(osnian). I wish I could find a way to drop off the face of the planet and leave my minds behind, get a new one. I dream of disappearing, cutting all ties, becoming a derelict, free to rave. I'd be calmer, happier. Or better, going back to Bosnia and telling no one, not even you. Just live there in the same city, grow a beard, and watch you to go to the market from the café across the street through a pair of sunglasses, never letting you know who I am. (p.43)”
― Ismet Prcic, Shards

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#25

“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”
― Lord Henry P. Brougham

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#26

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

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#27

“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

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#28

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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#29

“this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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#30

“Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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