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#1

“I knew Dad was concerned about my past associations. I was from the Trash Alley. It was my community. I hung out with thugs from the Frog Bottom, the Burns Bottoms, the Red Line, the S-Curve, the Sandfield, the Morning Side, and a bunch of other places that shall remain nameless. I knew all of the “Legends of the Hood”: Sin Man, Swap, Boo Boo, Emp-Man, Cookie Man, Shank, Polar Bear, Bae Willy, Bae Bruh, Skullhead Ned, Pimp, Crunch, and Goat Turd (just to name a few). I thought maybe Dad had summoned me as a “show and tell” for the kids in his neighborhood—the hardliner to scare those wayward suburban brats back into reality.”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

tags: chaos, deeper-understanding, dysfunctional-families, family, family-humour, life-lessons, struggle, trauma, truth

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#2

“Water suddenly remembered their prior visit and questioned, “What was I saying when you left so abruptly? Oh yes, I was telling you that I was alive and sentient. I was going to explain to you that everything is alive. Everything is connected: you, me, the trees, the plants, the soil, and the rocks. Everything! Do you know how much of you is made up of me?”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

tags: balance, creative-parenting, emotional-intelligence, energy-awareness, growth-mindset, kindness-matters, living-ecosystems, masaru-emoto, parental-guidance, words-matter

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#3

“While not unappetizing, the food was too spicy. Not to mention, there were things on her plate that she didn’t recognize and was not prepared to eat.”
― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet

tags: 2010-olympics, danger, hidden-motives, poignant-mystery, rebuilding, romance-suspense, shocking-twists, slow-burn, trust, vulnerability

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#4

“Captain Scultetus said, “Sir, I am the commander of the Swakopmund Coast Guard. My name and rank are Captain Oskar Scultetus! I respectfully beg you not to open fire upon my city!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: australia, discovery, life-experiences, life-journey, living, love, nostalgia, self, soul, vietnam

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#5

“The contemplative clinking and methodical chewing are a little weird, but it is proof that souls are housed inside the physical body.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: contemplating, healing, healing-journey, inner-peace, love, peace, self-love, spirit, spirituality

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#6

“Always move forward. Don’t dwell on the if-onlys.”
― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

tags: danger-zone, dark, deception, edge-of-your-seat, gritty, intelligence, justice-seeker, psychological-tension, pursuit, rogue-soldier

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#7

“Yeah. I’m an asshole. But I promise you, when the shit rolls downhill and you need someone with a shovel, I’m an asshole who can get the job done.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: change, confidence, courage, curiosity, exciting, exploration, faith, fast-paced, fear, hope

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#8

“You can be a natural athlete with terrible work habits, and that ends up wasting your gifts.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

tags: career, encouraging, family, fitness, healing, lesson, motivating, sport, support, time

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#9

“Rather than get hung up on theological debates, why don’t we focus on the depraved state of the people who need freedom? While debates rage, the devil is laughing as people stay in bondage.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

tags: ambassadors, blessed, destiny, god-given, good-fight, heaven, prayers, prophetic, spiritual, teachings

229 likes

#10

“It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

tags: gothic, horror, short-story

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#11

“How will the remaining portion of the community like to have the amusements that shall be permitted to them regulated by the religious and moral sentiments of the stricter Calvinists and Methodists? Would they not, with considerable peremptoriness, desire these intrusively pious members of society to mind their own business? This is precisely what should be said to every government and every public, who have the pretension that no person shall enjoy any pleasure which they think wrong.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

tags: liberty, minding-other-people-s-business, regulation

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#12

“In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes.
To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies.
Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark,
Else upon your mind they'll place a mark;
Do not listen to the shadows of the deep,
Else they haunt you even when you sleep.”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

tags: mind, protection

47 likes

#13

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: comment-of-the-times

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#14

“I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished . . . when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here.”
― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon

tags: love

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#15

“There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

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#16

“He had an intrusive gaze and quietly confident manner, that seemed to strip away the layers of protective deception Scott would usually adopt around strangers.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: philosophical-musings

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#17

“This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, engaging, exciting, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery

894 likes

#18

“It’s a divorce, not cancer.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: adventure, deceit, drama, humour, intrigue, lies, literary-fiction, romance, romantic, trust

71 likes

#19

“ Illicit flight Alfa Bravo Charlie quickly reached a predetermined altitude and stopped dead. The passengers on board screamed the way people do on fairground rides. The shuttle hesitated momentarily and then shot forward accelerating rapidly to reach a blistering 145,222 miles per hour. They were in a Mach 22 situation. The cries from on-board could not be heard from the ground. Neither did anyone in the great metropolis of Llar witness the bright blue vapour trail the craft left behind in its wake. It was after all overcast and raining heavily.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

tags: adventure, drama, dystopian, fantasy-novel, fast-paced, full-on, funny, gripping, magical, wars

479 likes

#20

“Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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#21

“Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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#22

“There is a new crisis in the Middle East. A report from Beirut, via Cairo, says that Syrian tanks of the most modern Russian design have crossed the Jordanian frontier. This is undoubtedly a threat to Israel. At the same time Damascus charges that Turkish troops are mobilizing….” Florence”
― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon

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#23

“Lethal to whom? Not to us English or Hollanders, who will come here peacefully and only as traders. Lethal to Yabu’s enemies and to Toranaga’s enemies, and to our Portuguese and Spanish enemies when they try to conquer Japan. Like they’ve done everywhere else. In every newly discovered territory. First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores”
― James Clavell, Shogun

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#24

“Don't be afraid of the future, little Julia. Take your present life and live it.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Favored Child

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#25

“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: prison

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