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#1

“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

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#2

“When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their readers, the imbalance between our inner and outer lives, a cautionary tale of the seductions of the written word. It became a vision of the afterlife as a library, of heaven as a funky old camper filled with everything you've ever read. What is this heaven? What is it we desire from the hours, weeks, lifetimes we devote to books? What would you sacrifice to sit in that comfy chair with perfect light for an afternoon in eternity, reading the perfect book, forever?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Night Bookmobile

tags: books, reading-books

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#3

“Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Night Bookmobile

tags: books, love

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#4

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

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#5

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

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#6

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

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#7

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women

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#8

“A wicked grin crinkled one corner of his mouth as he secured another sticky note on the door before shutting it in my face.

I blinked, then read the note.

Use the key.”
― Darynda Jones, Fifth Grave Past the Light

tags: charley-davidson, key, reyes-farrow, sticky-notes

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#9

“The 9th key may be the door opener. Don't give up after trying the 8th. Keep doing it!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

tags: 9, 9th, don-t-give-up, door, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, keep-it-up, key, keys, never-give-up, nine, open-the-door, try-again

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#10

“Kindness is the best key to open the locked door of every heart.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: debasish, debasish-mridha, heart, key, kindness, locked-door, mridha, open, open-hearted, philosophy

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#11

“Love is the key that opens every heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

tags: advice, christian-living, desires, family, heart, hope, key, lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations, love, marriage, motivational, relationships, romance, self-love, self-motivation, wishes

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#12

“KEY OF LIFE

The key of life
Symbolizes the map
Of existence.
Once you free yourself
From all resistance,
Your path will become white -
For the remainder of the distance.

Poetry by Suzy Kassem”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: attitude, courage, courage-in-life, distance, doubt, fear, fearless, fearless-direction, fearlessness, free, free-your-mind, free-yourself, freedom, inspirational, key, life, living, path, peace-of-mind, perspective, poem, poetry, regret, resist, resistance, success, successful, warrior, white

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#13

“The key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: key, life, life-quotes, living, suzy-kassem, wandering, wonder, wonderful, wonderful-life

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#14

“At the end of life, your reward in heaven will not be proportional to the role you played on earth, but how faithful you played it. Be faithful in every little role you are to play; it'll lead you to a greater reward! Faithfulness is key!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

tags: accomplish, accomplishment, achieve, achievement, earth, end-of-life, faithful, faithfulness, fight-a-good-fight, food-for-thought, fulfill, fulfillment, israelmore-ayivor, journey, key, lead, life, little, play-your-role, reward, role, success, successful

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#15

“Give full attention to what you do. If you give a rapt attention to what you do, you can have what you could have done in 3 hours well completed within 2 hours or less. Concentration is the key word.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

tags: attention, complete, concentrate, focus, food-for-thought, full-attention, israelmore-ayivor, key, key-word, manage-your-time, time, time-management

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#17

“I loved her like elephants like remembering stuff. Those bastards just won’t let me forget and move on.”
― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

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#24

“The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.”
― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

tags: black-skylark, dream-vision, earth, fantasy-novels, fiction-character-danny-blue, flickering-stars, flying, harmony, meditation, metaphysical-book, metaphysical-fiction, metaphysical-poets, moon, music, music-of-the-spheres, mysticism, mythopoeic-ficiton, nebulae, novels-by-aberjhani, paranormal-characters, paranormal-urban-fantasy-romance, postered-poetics-by-aberjhani, sighs, speculative-fiction, stars, supernatural-mystery, visionary-metaphysics, zped-music-player

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#25

“Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

tags: books, humor, reading

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#26

“I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly. Soon they will hide the neighbor and her screaming child.”
― Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

tags: leaves, neighbor, neighbors, spleen, spring, spring-spleen

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#27

“Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.”
― Esmeralda Santiago

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#28

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

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#29

“Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.”
― Rumi

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#30

“The emptiness of the narcissist often means that they are only focused on whatever is useful or interesting to them at the moment. If at that moment it is interesting for them to tell you they love you, they do. It’s not really a long game to them, and when the next interesting issue comes up, they attend to that. The objectification of others—viewing other people as objects useful to his needs—can also play a role. When you are the only thing in the room, or the most interesting thing in the room, then the narcissist’s charisma and charm can leave you convinced that you are his everything. The problem is that this is typically superficial regard, and that superficiality results in inconsistency, and emotions for the narcissistic person range from intense to detached on a regular basis. This vacillation between intensity and detachment can be observed in the narcissist’s relationships with people (acquaintances, friends, family, and partners), work, and experiences. A healthy relationship should feel like a safe harbor in your life. Life throws us enough curve balls in the shape of money problems, work issues, medical issues, household issues, and even the weather. Sadly, a relationship with a narcissist can be one more source of chaos in your life, rather than a place of comfort and consistency.”
― Ramani Durvasula, Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist

tags: narcissism

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