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#1

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”
― Dolly Parton

tags: leadership

668 likes

#2

“Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
― Dolly Parton

216 likes

#3

“I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either.”
― Dolly Parton

tags: blonde-humor, confession

130 likes

#4

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”
― Dolly Parton

tags: inspirational

186 likes

#5

“My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.”
― Dolly Parton

101 likes

#6

“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: cruel, god, human, hurt, love, pain

651 likes

#7

“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

617 likes

#8

“All knowledge is worth having.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: inspiration, life, philosophy

676 likes

#9

“Love as thou wilt”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: love

313 likes

#10

“When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: kushiel-s-dart

187 likes

#11

“It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: grief, sorrow, time

181 likes

#12

“Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: hate, love

142 likes

#13

“Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: awake, aware, dream, ears, self

133 likes

#14

“If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: battle, loyalty, war

133 likes

#15

“We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

tags: thelesis-de-mornay

105 likes

#16

“Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. ”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: love

103 likes

#17

“Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: bitterness, fate, fear, life

103 likes

#18

“Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Scion

tags: imriel

88 likes

#19

“It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: happiness, sorrow

85 likes

#20

“There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Kiss

tags: fashion, self-perception

79 likes

#21

“We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights. ”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

tags: inspirational

72 likes

#22

“Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

tags: fiction, jacqueline-carey, kushiel-s-dart, love

48 likes

#23

“Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're Phèdre's Boys!
We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're Phèdre's Boys!
Man or woman, we don't care, give us twins we'll take the pair! We're Phèdre's Boys!
...But just because we let you beat us, doesn't mean you can defeat us, we're Phèdre's Boys!”
― Jacqueline Carey

tags: kushiel-s-dart

50 likes

#24

“I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love.

It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss.

Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Curse

tags: love

43 likes

#25

“It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning. ”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

tags: spiritual

35 likes

#26

“For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: life, time

42 likes

#27

“Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?”
― Jacqueline Carey

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#28

“Love child!" What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Scion

34 likes

#29

“There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: compassion, goodness, jacqueline-carey, kindness, kushiels-dart

40 likes

#30

“Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.”
― Jacqueline Carey

tags: love

32 likes

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