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  • #1
    Deborah Cox
    “So I placed my heart under lock and key
    To take some time, and take care of me
    But I turn around and you're standing here”
    Deborah Cox

  • #2
    C. JoyBell C.
    “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #3
    Gabrielle Giffords
    “Pursue your passion, and everything will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism.”
    Gabrielle Giffords, Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope

  • #4
    Barbara "Cutie" Cooper
    “Fill your life with trustworthy friends, and don't drop them should you fall in love. They can be your guides should you lose track of what is important.”
    Barbara "Cutie" Cooper, Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

  • #5
    Elizabeth Grace Saunders
    “We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do.”
    Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can't Ignore You

  • #6
    What Makes You Great
    “You must never doubt your ability to achieve anything, become anything, overcome anything and inspire everything.”
    Tasha Hoggatt

  • #7
    Zack W. Van
    “Follow your heart, but don't lose your mind along the way.”
    Zack W. Van

  • #8
    Toba Beta
    “I don't judge people.
    It blurs out the center of my attention,
    my focus,
    myself.”
    Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

  • #9
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #10
    Frederick Buechner
    “Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.”
    Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace

  • #11
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”
    Chimamanda Adichie

  • #12
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • #13
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • #14
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

  • #15
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • #16
    Maya Angelou
    “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
    Maya Angelou



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