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    C. JoyBell C.
    “It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: beautiful, divine, flight, flying, flying-spirit, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, wings-of-god
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    John Hodgman
    “Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
    ― John Hodgman
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    James M. Cain
    “If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
    ― James M. Cain
    tags: james-m-cain, writing-craft
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    Marianne Williamson
    “Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
    ― Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
    tags: calling, healing
    1386 likes

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  • #5
    Julien Green
    “I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.”
    ― Julien Green
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine
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    Frédéric Beigbeder
    “Love is when you cease hesitating.”
    ― Frédéric Beigbeder
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  • #8
    Stefan Molyneux
    “There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: freedomain-radio, love, stefan-molyneux, truth
    864 likes

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  • #9
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
    ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    tags: adversity, beauty, empathy, people, understanding
    5237 likes

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    Marshall B. Rosenberg
    “What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart.”
    ― Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
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  • #11
    Trudi Canavan
    “Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.”
    ― Trudi Canavan, Priestess of the White
    tags: trudi-canavan, truefacts
    501 likes

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  • #12
    Elif Shafak
    “Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me.”
    ― Elif Shafak
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  • #13
    Fran Lebowitz
    “A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz
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  • #14
    Tadeusz Borowski
    “What a curious power words have.”
    ― Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
    tags: power, quotes, words
    693 likes

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    Christopher Paolini
    “Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.”
    ― Christopher Paolini
    tags: christopher, paolini
    834 likes

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    Alberto Moravia
    “Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”
    ― Alberto Moravia
    317 likes

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  • #17
    Elizabeth Berg
    “There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
    ― Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures
    tags: death, love, separation
    1140 likes

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  • #18
    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
    “Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.”
    ― Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
    tags: advice, stars
    817 likes

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    Gloria Naylor
    “But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”
    ― Gloria Naylor
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    Alan Paton
    “I have always found that actively loving
    saves one from a morbid preoccupation
    with the shortcomings of society.”
    ― Alan Paton
    tags: complaining, love
    512 likes

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  • #21
    Karel Čapek
    “Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.”
    ― Karel Čapek
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    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    ― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story
    tags: acceptance, life, love, worth
    3776 likes

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    Paul Auster
    “When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
    ― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
    1167 likes

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  • #24
    John Guare
    “It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
    ― John Guare, Landscape of the Body
    tags: future, hope
    3626 likes

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  • #25
    E.L. Doctorow
    “[Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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  • #27
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
    “Written words can also sing.”
    ― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Dreams in a Time of War
    tags: inspirational, writing
    404 likes

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    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    ― Tom Bodett
    tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing
    8115 likes

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  • #29
    Neil Jordan
    “Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
    ― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast
    2297 likes

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  • #30
    Tom Wolfe
    “You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
    ― Tom Wolfe
    1793 likes



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