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#1

“Yeah, but broken isn't the same as unfixable.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

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#2

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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#3

“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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#4

“He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

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#5

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: encouragement, gandalf

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#6

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom

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#7

“The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: impossible, lick, longing, remembering, world

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#8

“There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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#9

“Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

tags: grace, holy, love, unearned-blessings, worthy

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#10

“Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

tags: inspirational

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#11

“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

tags: faith, prejudice, reason

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#12

“Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

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#13

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: dune

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#14

“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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#15

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald, narrator, the-great-gatsby

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#16

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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#17

“Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.”
― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

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#18

“Sometimes you have to give the hurt a noise and let it out. If you don’t, it fills you up with its emptiness.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

tags: broken-heart, sadness-love

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#19

“Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

tags: love

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#20

“The complicated thing about good and bad people alike is that most of us can be both at the same time.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

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#21

“Life is a weird thing. We spend all our time trying to manage different aspects of it, yet we are still largely shaped by things that happen beyond our control.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

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#22

“A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: change, metamorphosis, story

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#23

“I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

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#24

“The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

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#25

“Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

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#26

“The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

tags: love, story

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#27

“Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

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#28

“Sometimes you hold onto things, not because you want to keep them, but because they are difficult to let go.”
― Phaedra Patrick, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

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#29

“Sometimes when you've lived a chapter of your life, you don't want to look back.”
― Phaedra Patrick, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

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#30

“He was stronger and had more depth than he knew and he liked these new discoveries about himself.”
― Phaedra Patrick, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

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