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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
    is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
    person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality
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    Langston Hughes
    “Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

    I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: life, simplicity
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    Rick Warren
    “Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”
    ― Rick Warren
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Langston Hughes
    “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: aspirations, determination, dreams
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    Langston Hughes
    “Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: humor
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    Langston Hughes
    “I asked you, baby,
    If you understood-
    You told me that you didn't,
    But you thought you would.”
    ― Langston Hughes
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    Langston Hughes
    “I wish the rent Was heaven sent.”
    ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
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    Langston Hughes
    “Life dosent frighten me at all.”
    ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
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    Mildred D. Taylor
    “So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”
    ― Mildred D. Taylor, The Land
    tags: impossibility, inspirational, possibility
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    Langston Hughes
    “7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.”
    ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
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    Connie Rose Porter
    “Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallness to my mind. I don't need her hands to convince me the world I can't see from under my blanket is real. I need her hands to do more than her words. Convince me the world I see outside it- ain't.”
    ― Connie Porter
    tags: fear, imani-all-mine, parents-and-children
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    Toni Morrison
    “The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: inspirational, responsibility
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    T.D. Jakes
    “a setback is a setup for a comeback”
    ― T.D. Jakes
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    Mary H.K. Choi
    “To be a hero, you had to decide it was you.”
    ― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact
    tags: decide, emergency-contact, hero, you
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    Mary H.K. Choi
    “I like knowing that you exist. It doesn't make me feel any less lonely, because life is lonely, but it makes me feel a lot less alone.”
    ― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact
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    Mary H.K. Choi
    “It's piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up”
    ― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact
    tags: emergency-contact, emotional, forever, grown-up, homework
    40 likes

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    Mary H.K. Choi
    “It was inconceivable for Penny that his eyes served any function other than to be admired.”
    ― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact
    tags: love, love-quotes
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Thanhhà Lại
    “Mother says,
    People share
    when they know they have escaped hunger.

    Shouldn't people share
    because there is hunger?”
    ― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again
    tags: humanity
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    Thanhhà Lại
    “Everyone knows the ship could sink, unable to hold the piles of bodies that keep crawling on like raging ants from a disrupted nest. But no one is heartless enough to say stop because what if they had been stopped before their turn?”
    ― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again
    tags: immigration
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    David Seller
    “The catch about not looking a gift horse in the mouth is that it may be a Trojan horse.”
    ― David Seller
    tags: humor
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    Michelle Obama
    “You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
    ― Michelle Obama
    tags: decision-making, decisions, fear
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    Hark Herald Sarmiento
    “Don't entrust your future on others' hands. Rather make decisions by yourself with the help of God's guidance. Hold your beliefs so tight and never let go of them!”
    ― Hark Herald Sarmiento
    tags: beliefs, decision-making, decisions, entrust, future, guidance
    84 likes

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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    tags: decision-making
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  • #29
    “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”
    ― James Anthony Froude, The Nemesis of Faith
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  • #30
    Pablo Neruda
    “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: hope, inevitability, spring
    3818 likes



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