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    Ernest Hemingway
    “We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: misattributed-ernest-hemingway, misattributed-leonard-cohen
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: ideas, libraries, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    Lemony Snicket
    “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: libraries, reading
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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: writing
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    Voltaire
    “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
    ― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
    tags: religion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
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    Elisabeth Elliot
    “If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.”
    ― Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
    tags: christianity, inspirational
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    Lois Lowry
    “The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.

    [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]”
    ― Lois Lowry
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: inspirational-ship-storms
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: amy-march, jo-march, longing, lost-love, love, spoil, teddy-lawrence, unrequited-love, waste-of-life
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength
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    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio
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    Anne Frank
    “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: nature
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #23
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hope, inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life
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    Betty Smith
    “I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: happiness, lost-love, love
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: best-friends, betrayal, boyfriends, break-ups, dating, divorce, family, friends, friendships, girlfriends, lost-love, love, loved-ones, lovers, marriage, moving-on, parents, ponderings, reflection, relationships, romance, senseless, soulmates, true-love, unrequited-love
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