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“And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don'treally understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.”
― John Elder Robison

tags: aspergers

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“Life is a test of your sanity, and believe me you never make it out without going a little crazy along the way.”
― J. Morgan

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#3

“Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.”
― Justin Cronin, The Summer Guest

tags: character, courage, goodness, inspirational, moral-courage, unsung-heroes

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#4

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#5

“O beautiful for spacious skies
for amber waves of grain”
― Katharine Lee Bates

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#6

“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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#7

“How is your book doing?" or "How many copies have you sold?" are the questions for a salesman. To a writer, you better ask "What did you write today?".”
― Shubham Choudhary

tags: deep-thoughts, fact, writing-life

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#8

“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, deeds, good, leo-tolstoy

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#9

“Strong people don't put others down... They lift them up.”
― Michael P. Watson

tags: helping, helping-others, strong, support

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#10

“Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”
― Brian Tracy, Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

tags: attitude, educational, expectation, expectations, life, personality, positive, teaching, wisdom

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#11

“Attachment. A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base; an unbreakable or perceivable inability to shatter to bond between primary parental caregiver(s) and child; a quest for familiarity; an unspoken language and knowledge that a caregiver will be a permanent fixture.”
― Asa Don Brown, The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview

tags: attachment, bonds, capella-university, childhood-trauma, parental-bond, ptsd, reactive-attachment-disorder, trauma

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#12

“Children are barometers of the chaos that exists within their lives.”
― Asa Don Brown

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#13

“I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

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#14

“So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

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#15

“It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are. ”
― Christina Baker Kline, Bird in Hand

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#16

“Unconditional love is hard to compete with.”
― Abbi Glines, Because of Low

tags: love, unconditional-love

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#17

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning

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#18

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: challenges, children, luxury

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#19

“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”
― Fred Rogers

tags: children, heroes, heroism

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#20

“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.”
― Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

tags: children

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#21

“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”
― Bill Ayers

tags: children, compassion, discipline, love, parenting

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#22

“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: orphans

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#23

“When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.”
― Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl

tags: disillusionment, orphans

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#24

“Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.”
― Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

tags: orphans

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#25

“…there is no other logical explanation for how things ultimately worked out except by God’s hand.”
― Kim De Blecourt, Until We All Come Home: A Harrowing Journey, a Mother's Courage, a Race to Freedom

tags: ginger-kolbaba, international-adoption, kim-de-blecourt, orphans, ukraine, until-we-all-come-home

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#26

“Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing.”
― Kim De Blecourt, Until We All Come Home: A Harrowing Journey, a Mother's Courage, a Race to Freedom

tags: ginger-kolbaba, international-adoption, kim-de-blecourt, orphans, ukraine, until-we-all-come-home

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#27

“When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: alone, family, loneliness, love, orphan, orphans, parentless

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#28

“Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

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#29

“It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

tags: dark-hunter-acheron

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#30

“Mrs. Scatcherd raps Dutchy's knuckles several times with a long wooden ruler, though it seems to me a halfhearted penalty. He barely winces, then shakes his hands twice in the air and winks at me. Truly , there isn't much more she can do. Stripped of family and identity, fed meager rations, consigned to hard wooden seats until we are to be, as Slobbery Jack suggested, sold into slavery — our mere existence is punishment enough.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

tags: orphan-trains, orphans, punishment

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