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#1

“Each day a whole world passes away, largely unappreciated, numbly relegated to obligation, commerce and routine. One day seems as unremarkable as the next. It's only through the inexorable accretion of days, weeks, months and years, that we come to appreciate with heartbreaking clarity how incredibly unique and precious each lost day has been.”
― S.W. Clemens

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#2

“She likes me. I can tell. Problem is, she won’t admit that to the boyfriends she brings over.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: fiction, horror, humour, literary-fiction, paranormal, politics, sci-fi, science-fiction, short-stories

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#3

“One by one, slow, quiet, with little more than a whispered end, Sofia snuffed the remaining candles. For every prayer she had that was never answered, she extinguished another light, another’s prayer, determined to take it back, to take them all back. ”
― Douglas Weissman, Life Between Seconds

tags: adventure, danger, emotional, emotions, family-life, fantasy, fiction, literary, literary-fiction, loss

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#4

“My father was incredibly indecisive. As an example, take his wedding day. He couldn't decide where to sit in the getaway car, decide the fact he was supposed to be driving.”
― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake

tags: bad-behaviour, behaviour, entertainment, fast-paced, fiction, hilarious, media-driven, social-media, society, witty

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#5

“When we think our countless ideas are great, God knows His ideas are best when we wait.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

tags: bible, book-of-god, church, glory, hope, illustrations, joy, rhyming, truth, young-readers

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#6

“Julia, hanging back, says, ‘How have you been, Stephen?’
I want to tell her everything. I want to find out what she’s been doing, what she plans to do but, at this fated moment, a vision of my stomach floats before me. It is a soggy marsh, green rushes growing round the edges, gas bubbles surfacing all over and bursting. The bubbling of the marsh is set to the music of creation, the percussive glottal stops of the Big Bang. I realize I have, at best, one complete sentence left in me. ‘Julia,’ I begin, composing in my head a deranged paean of love that I can never utter. ‘I regret that I am not myself today. Terry has poisoned me.’
‘You should go home,’ she says.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

tags: cultural, cultural-heritage, future, heritage, historical-fiction, love, multi-layered, past, understanding

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#7

“What is Insulin?
Insulin is a hormone that allows the glucose (also called blood sugar) in your blood to get out of your bloodstream and into your cells for energy for whatever your current activity or inactivity is. If you have more glucose in your bloodstream than your current energy need, the excess is stored in your liver (called glycogen in its storage form). If your liver is full and you still have excess glucose in your bloodstream, the rest is stored as body fat around your butt, thighs, belly—and generally every place you don’t want it to be. ”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

tags: coach, glucose-control, guidance, learning, overweight, teaching, understanding, weight-control, weight-management

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#8

“Sanjit says his apartment, the same one in which he grew up, has been flooded many times by the midsummer torrents. For what has been for millennia a primarily agricultural society, rains simultaneously destroy, create, and preserve life in India, similar to the functions of the three premier Hindu gods, Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu. Every time Kolkata gets pounded by a cyclone, or when the monsoon first erupts in June (although the recent warming of the Indian Ocean increasingly disturbs a once-consistent timeline), Sanjit never fails to send along a video, his house flooded – seemingly destroyed – but the smiles on his, Bajju’s, or other house-guest’s faces signify just the opposite, having been cooled and relieved of perpetual heat. Flooded, they remain preserved.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

tags: find-oneself, indian-education, journal, personal-identity, poetry, political-history, teachings, truths, value

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#9

“Your soil and plants are friends that benefit from constant care and attention to the details I explain.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: care, feed, gardening, grow, herbs, horticulture, nature, plants, soil

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#10

“The poor man’s face twisted into a grimace and he pounded on the bar, protesting loudly. “Oh, you shush,” Kim demanded as she continued to knead his shoulders, jerking his whole body as she worked. “You’ll like this in a minute.”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Problems at the Pub

tags: charming, cozy-mystery, humorous, romantic, secret-society, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance, witty

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#11

“Survival in that era required superb mental abilities from everyone. When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new ‘niches for imbeciles’ were opened up. You could survive and pass your unremarkable genes to the next generation by working as a water carrier or an assembly-line worker.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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#12

“Fulfilling one’s earthly responsibilities need not separate man from God, provided he maintains mental uninvolvement with egotistical desires and plays his part in life as a willing instrument of the Divine.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

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#13

“The law of the jungle which I learned at a young age, and have been trying to escape ever since, is that we what we must to survive.”
― Jim Fergus

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#14

“Klunk’s another word for poo. Poo makes a klunk sound when it falls in our pee pots.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

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#15

“I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: alienation, angst, life, teenager

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#16

“Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

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