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    Piper Kerman
    “I knew that I would have to be brave. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions of myself to prove that I wasn't terrified--really genuinely brave. Brave enough to be quiet when quiet was called for, brave enough to observe before flinging myself into something, brave enough to not abandon my true self when someone else wanted to seduce or force me in a direction I didn't want to go, brave enough to stand my ground quietly.”
    ― Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black
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    Amor Towles
    “I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.”
    ― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility
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    Amor Towles
    “It is a well-known fact that of all the species on earth Homo sapiens is among the most adaptable. Settle a tribe of them in a desert and they will wrap themselves in cotton, sleep in tents, and travel on the backs of camels; settle them in the Arctic and they will wrap themselves in sealskin, sleep in igloos, and travel by dog-drawn sled. And if you settle them in a Soviet climate? They will learn to make friendly conversation with strangers while waiting in line; they will learn to neatly stack their clothing in their half of the bureau drawer; and they will learn to draw imaginary buildings in their sketchbooks. That is, they will adapt.”
    ― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
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    Amor Towles
    “Without a doubt. But imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness.”
    ― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
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    Amor Towles
    “Fate does not take sides. It is fair-minded and generally prefers to maintain some balance between the likelihood of success and failure in all our endeavors.”
    ― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
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    Amor Towles
    “the wise man celebrates what he can.”
    ― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
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    Amor Towles
    “Most people have more needs than wants. That's why they live the lives they do. But the world is run by those whose wants outstrip their needs.”
    ― Amor Towles
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    Amor Towles
    “History is the business of identifying momentous events from the comfort of a high-back chair. With the benefit of time, the historian looks back and points to a date in the manner of a gray-haired field marshal pointing to a bend in a river on a map: There it was, he says. The turning point. The decisive factor. The fateful day that fundamentally altered all that was to follow. There”
    ― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
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  • #9
    Amor Towles
    “That sense of loss is exactly what we must anticipate, prepare for, and cherish to the last of our days; for it is only our heartbreak that finally refutes all that is ephemeral in love.”
    ― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
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    Mario Puzo
    “You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.”
    ― Mario Puzo, The Godfather
    tags: family
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    Mario Puzo
    “Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster”
    ― Mario Puzo
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  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, self-awareness, self-worth, strong
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    Steve Goodier
    “My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.”
    ― Steve Goodier
    tags: growth, healing, healing-the-past, hurts, past, past-and-present, resilience, scars, strength, strong, survivor, woundedness, wounds
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    Holly Black
    “Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.”
    ― Holly Black, Red Glove
    tags: advice, moms, sensitive, strong
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    Maya Angelou
    “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Amit Ray
    “Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.”
    ― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
    tags: comapssion, compassion, compassion-quotes, inner-child, inner-dialogue, inner-guidance, inner-light, inner-peace, inner-self, inner-strength, inner-voice, inner-world, kindness, meditation, spirituality
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    Aaron Lauritsen
    “The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
    ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
    tags: 100-days-drive, 100daysdrive, acceptance, accomplish, adventure, ambition, author, awakening, be-happy, be-proud, believe, bestrong, bestseller, bohemian, break-barriers, carma, chances, change, chase-dreams, cherish, coming-of-age, compassion, competition, confidence, conquer, conquer-fear, content, control-your-life, courage, crossroads, destiny, determination, dig-deep, don-t-give-up, don-t-judge, don-t-worry-be-happy, dream-big, dreamer, empower, energy, enjoy-life, explore, faith, fearless, find-yourself, follow-your-dreams, follow-your-heart, follow-your-own-path, forgive, free, freedom, fresh-start, goal-setting, goals, goals-in-life, good-soul, gratitude, happiness, heal, high-road, hope, humanity, humility, inner-beauty, inner-strength, inspiration, journey, joy, judgement, laugh, learn, liberate, liberating, life, life-lessons, light, limitless, live-life-quotes, love-thy-neighbor, love-thyself, love-yourself, luck, memoir, never-quit, no-regrets, nomad, one-life, open-road, opportunity, parenthood, perspective, positive-thinking, power, pride, push-limits, quote-of-the-day, quotes, reflections, resiliency, respect, risk-taking, road-trip, satisfaction, service-to-others, smile, soar, soul-food, spirituality, start-all-over, staystrong, strength, struggle, success, teamwork, thick-skin, think-outside-the-box, travel, truth, values, walk-a-mile, wander, wanderlust, wateroffaducksback, writer
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: focus, future, happiness, happy, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, letting-go-of-the-past, life, life-and-living, life-quotes, live, living, living-in-the-present, living-life, living-life-to-the-fullest, living-now, worry
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  • #20
    Willa Cather
    “The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
    ― Willa Cather
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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  • #23
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
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    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
    ― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
    tags: language, laziness, morose, tired, very, women
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: burden, detractors, distract, egocentric, egoism, egotism, egotist, fake-friends, fatal, laziness, lazy, michael-bassey-johnson, mission, narcissism, parasites, perch, satisfaction, self-absorbed, self-centred, self-interest, self-obsessed, vain
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  • #26
    Philip Roth
    “Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
    ― Philip Roth
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  • #27
    William Trevor
    “I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
    ― William Trevor
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    William Trevor
    “As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.”
    ― William Trevor
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    William Trevor
    “By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.”
    ― William Trevor
    tags: characters, invader, people, person, predator, write, writing
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    William Trevor
    “A person's life isn't orderly ...it runs about all over the place, in and out through time. The present's hardly there; the future doesn't exist. Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.”
    ― William Trevor
    tags: death, life, love
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  • #31
    William Trevor
    “The past has no belongings. The past does not obligingly absorb what is not wanted.”
    ― William Trevor, The Silence in the Garden
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