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    Sara Gruen
    “Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.”
    ― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
    tags: body, love, touch
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    Amit Abraham
    “Keep in touch without touching”
    ― Amit Abraham
    tags: touch, touching
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: self-esteem, self-image
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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, discovery, identity, self-discovery, service
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: hate, love, religion, sin, sinners
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: appreciation, life, speed, time
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: eating-disorders
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    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
    tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness
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    Orson Scott Card
    “She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and...ah, this above all...their conversation.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
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    Rohinton Mistry
    “Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different. ”
    ― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters
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    Miyuki Miyabe
    “Don't confuse a kid whining for a treat with the argument of a rigorous, logical mind," he had said, as logical as ever.”
    ― Miyuki Miyabe, Brave Story
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: fear, jamais-vu
    497 likes

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    Judy Blume
    “I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep. None of it has anything to do with you. It's just that I don't know what to do now. You must be thinking what a rotten person I am. Well, believe me, I'm thinking the same thing. I don't know how this happened or why. Maybe I can get over it. Do you think you can wait—because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you … not ever …”
    ― Judy Blume, Forever...
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    Ann Richards
    “I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.”
    ― Ann Richards
    tags: belief, believe, mistake, recovery, responsibility, responsible, role-model, young, youth
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    Gautama Buddha
    “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
    ― Dhammapada, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
    tags: buddha, buddhism, wisdom
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    Sarah Dessen
    “It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder―or impossible―to lose.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
    tags: ability, achievement, treasured, worth
    651 likes

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    Henry Ford
    “You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: action, motivation, reputation
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  • #21
    “I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably
    become as ordinary as they expect you to be.”
    ― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
    tags: failure, inspirational, life-lesson, motivation, success
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  • #22
    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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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: anorexia, self-esteem
    1252 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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    Bill Watterson
    “I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
    tags: education
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    Bill Watterson
    “From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in.”
    ― Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
    tags: humor
    335 likes

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    Gretchen Rubin
    “The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.”
    ― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project
    tags: feelings, giving, happiness, selfishness, selflessness
    714 likes

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    Khaled Hosseini
    “A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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