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#1

“Your own setbacks aren’t what they first appear to be; rather than viewing them as failures, view them as learning opportunities that are the building blocks for future preparation.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

tags: christian, growth, inspirational, inspiring, introspective, memoir, motivating, motivational, personal-development, self-help

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#2

“It is not about forgetting but about not letting the past define you. It is about learning from it and embracing its role as your lifetime teacher.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

tags: biography, dare-to-dream, determination, dreams, grit, hope, inspiring, life-journey, memoir, true-life-events

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#3

“I sat in my brown-belted gi at the painted metal table outside of Einstein’s and Peet’s with Mr. Ho, my Kenpo Karate instructor in his black-belted gi, and my bronze, canine psychologist, wearing his/her Lacoste eyeglasses.”
― M S M Barkawitz, Feeling Lucky

tags: 21st-century, crime-thriller, death, fiction, intrigue, murder, mystery-thriller, suffering, thriller-novels

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#4

“If you are offended by a belief that says you can’t have your own definition of God, be alarmed at yourself! The implications are humbling, if not embarrassing.”
― Randy Loubier

tags: christianity, gods-power, guidance, healing, love, reflection, religion-and-philoshophy, spirtitual-growth

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#5

“It was a limbo of an existence; he couldn’t have what he once had, and he was never able to move on. His memories were his only company.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

tags: action-thriller, dark, dark-fantasy, dark-horror, romance, suspense-novel, suspenseful, thriller-books, vampire, vengeance

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#6

“Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#7

“It took me a moment to speak. My heart pumped madly as though I’d run for miles in pursuit of something vital. In this case, love.”
― J.J. Sorel, A Taste of Peace

tags: drama, fiction, love-story, novels

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#8

“The people at the center of these stories of power couples mostly choose to see their own motives as selfless. In Elizabeth Edwards’ autobiography Resilience, she wrote of her marriage to John, U.S. senator from North Carolina, ‘We were lovers, life companions, crusaders, side by side, for a vision of what the country could be.’ When she found out he was cheating on her, the crusading together became ‘the glue’ that kept them together. ‘I grabbed hold of it. I needed to,’ Edwards wrote. ‘Although I no longer knew what I could trust between the two of us, I knew I could trust in our work together.’ She wanted ‘an intact family fighting for causes more important than any one of us.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationships

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#9

“Now I happen to possess the bump of locality. It is not a virtue; I make no boast of it. It is merely an animal instinct that I cannot help. That things occasionally get in my way—mountains, precipices, rivers, and such like obstructions—is no fault of mine. My instinct is correct enough; it is the earth that is wrong. I led them by the middle road. That the middle road had not character enough to continue for any quarter of a mile in the same direction; that after three miles up and down hill it ended abruptly in a wasps’ nest, was not a thing that should have been laid to my door. If the middle road had gone in the direction it ought to have done, it would have taken us to where we wanted to go, of that I am convinced.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel

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#10

“A stale article, if you did it in a good, warm, sunny smile will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables

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#11

“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
― Thomas Paine, Works of Thomas Paine

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#12

“Face your fears or they will climb over your back.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

tags: courage, fear

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#13

“Cauza necazurilor noastre nu se află în jilțul guvernului, ci în imediata apropiere, în trib, în familie, în noi înșine.”
― Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe

tags: c, douglas, lloyd, robe, the

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#14

“It was good to see her laugh. Even if it was at me.”
― Chuck Dixon, Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #8

tags: barbara-gordon, birds-of-prey, dick-grayson, nightwing, oracle

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#15

“The weather was as ready as the school and campus. The sky was cloudless and the temperature was expected to top out at 76 degrees. Early morning mowers had sugared the air with the fragrance of freshly mowed grass.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

tags: divine-miracles, extraordinary-leadership, fighting-adversity, heartwarming-tale, human-redemption, redemptive-journey, societal-issues-resolved, speaking-truth, transformative-journey, voice-of-truth

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#16

“Before going to breakfast, you are in your room experiencing the gongs of a classic religious
bell, a unique and cuddly invitation to the morning meditation session. In ten minutes it will be 7:00 a.m.—dawn’s brisk reminder that life will never be easy. Mornings are a bit cruel.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: descriptive, drama, empathy, joy, meditation, motivated, peace, religous, self-healing, spiritual

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#17

“If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery

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#18

“I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: admire, bitch, confidence, critic, inspirational, life, writing

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#19

“God’s people must be free!”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

tags: change, determination, devoted, faith, freedom, god, growth, heal, learn, peace

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#20

“Angus reached the young woman to find that she was shaken more by the sudden fire than by the lion, as she had only seen it as it ran back to the mountain. Sliding from the back of the cob, he took the woman’s hand to calm her shaking. Quietly he introduced himself, and hesitantly she told him that her name was Elbeth, and she was the daughter of James Cameron.”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#21

“The image of the sensual, sleep-laden Naomi made him smile. And wish he’d been lying on the pillow next to her when she’d opened her eyes. Lucky pillow.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: action, adventure, discovery, drama, emotions, fiction, intrigue, mystery, romance

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#22

“I can’t do more than this. Don’t ask me. If you ask, I’ll try and I’ll fail. You’ll end up hating me. And I’d rather die . . . than have you hate me. Or disappoint you. My own darkness, it still chips away at me.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: drama, fiction, fun, laugh-out-loud, literary-fiction, love, romance-novel, satire-fiction, suspense

170 likes

#23

“If I were a scientist watching her, what would I write down as the results? Woman who had neglectful/scary childhood finds comfort in fictional representations of families?”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo: 'Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute.' Marian Keyes

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#24

“Every one of them [prostitutes] has a story, and every story begins with a man who failed her. A husband who came home from the war, good for nothin' but drink. A father who didn't come home at all, or a stepfather who did. A brother who should have protected her. A beau who promised marriage and left when he got what he wanted, because he wouldn't marry a slut. If a girl like that has lost her way, it's because some worthless no-account sonofabitch left her in the wilderness alone.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Doc

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#25

“The girl's cigarette released this shocking pink smoke reserved for the feminine genre.”
― Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

tags: bad-english, bad-grammar, misspelling, typo, typos, wtf

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#26

“In this, then, lies their power of understanding--understanding, without words, what is authentic or inauthentic. Thus it was the grimaces, the histrionisms, the false gestures and, above all, the false tones and cadences of the voice, which rang false for those wordless but immensely sensitive patients. It was to these (for them) most glaring, even grotesque, incongruities and improprieties that my aphasic patients responded, undeceived and undeceivable by words.

This is why they laughed at the President's speech.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

tags: humor, humorous, political, politics, ronald-reagan

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#27

“Men are seldom struck by incongruities in their appearance any more than their own conduct.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer

tags: hypocrisy, inconsistency, self-awareness

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#28

“И аз чувствам, че има нещо много сериозно, много важно, което трябва да ти кажа, мой несъществуващи читателю, и чувствам, че трябва да го кажа така настоятелно, както ако стоях в стаята пред теб. Че животът – какъвто и други качества да има – е кратък. Че съдбата е жестока, но може би не е произволна. Че Природата (с което искам да кажа Смъртта) винаги побеждава, но това не означава, че трябва да се преклоним, да коленичим пред нея. Че дори ако невинаги сме щастливи, че сме тук, нашата задача е да се потопим в живота така или иначе; да газим право напред, напряко през тази помийна яма, с отворени очи и открити сърца. И когато умираме, когато се издигаме над материалното и когато потъваме отново, позорно, в материалното, за нас е гордост и привилегия да обичаме онова, което смъртта не може да докосне. Защото, макар че забвението и злополучията са преследвали тази картина през вековете – по същия начин я е преследвала и любовта. И доколкото тя е безсмъртна (а тя е безсмъртна), аз имам един мъничък, светъл, непроменим дял в това безсмъртие. И аз добавям своята любов към историята на хората, които са обичали красивите неща, които са ги търсили, които са ги спасявали от огъня, издирвали са ги, когато са изчезнели, опитвали са се да ги съхранят и да ги спасят, предавайки ги буквално от ръка на ръка и, сияйната им песен се издига над разрухата на времето и достига до нови и нови поколения любители на красотата.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#29

“It’s a small story really, about, among other things:

* A girl
* Some words
* An accordionist
* Some fanatical Germans
* A Jewish fist fighter
* And quite a lot of thievery”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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