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#1

“What is it that inspires you? What do you love to do? What would you do for free? At the beginning of my busi-ness career, my why was to become a millionaire, not a good why! And why not? Because that is an aspiration rather than a why. Aspirations, I have found, won’t fuel me when the going gets tough. But a true “why” will.”
― Richard Polak

tags: business-success, learning, self-help, self-improvement

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#2

“Beth looks to Steven, "You should have stayed in Hell.”
― Carl Novakovich, The Watchers: The Tomb

tags: action, dark, dark-fantasy, demonic, fantasy, fantasy-novel, occult-mystery

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#3

“Together let us hold the intention that all aspects of this living planet come together in love, acceptance, and celebration of both our diversities and commonalities. Let us possess the common purpose that we heal from our hearts into compassion and forgiveness for ourselves. Together let us own the belief that we will no longer unite with blame and judgement, but come to accept that we all carry the same wounds. In acknowledging this, the hope is for the whole planet in its jubilant diversity to be healed from any and all woundings so that we come together on equal footing, living in peace and joy and setting the tone for a future of harmony within and on this planet.
Peace to all and healing to all.”
― Wendy E. Slater, Of the Flame, Poems - Volume 15

tags: compassion, forgiveness, healing-journey, healing-quotes, inspirational, spiritual-wisdom

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#4

“The purest love flows through my heart. Love that makes life worth living, filling it with purpose and happiness.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

tags: love, science, teen-fiction

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#5

“Support is the number one thing when it comes to fighting a mental illness. And the ones who have walked in the same shoes as you are the very best support system. There is no stigma in this group. There is no judging. We aren’t here to judge. We are here to understand and to let you know you aren’t alone in whatever battle you are facing. And that is why we started this group called You Matter.”
― Emma Thomas, Live for Me

tags: adhd, discovery, fun, life-lessons, life-struggles, literary-fiction, love, quirky, romance

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#6

“I admire the Queen greatly,” Casanova confided in me. “She can tie a man up by his thumbs, discuss philosophy with Diderot and Voltaire, and plot and scheme like a Dutch diplomat. She has voracious appetites, uses exquisite French scents, is kind to animals, fences like a Hungarian hussar, recreates herself on a white silk swing in a room full of mirrors, and gives afternoon tea parties for society ladies. Useful horsewoman, too.”
― Harry F. MacDonald, Casanova and the Devil's Doorbell

tags: eighteenth-century-history, european-history, fiction-novel, politically-incorrect, witty

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#7

“I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.”
― Iain Banks, The Bridge

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#8

“June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?”
― Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men

tags: journalism, politics, united-states

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#9

“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books, reader, reading

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#10

“Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: christmas, life, musings, poisoned

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#11

“Venice would not be who she is without her music lingering around every narrow calle and corner.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: beautiful-writing, cultural-fiction, historical-fiction, italian-history, music, setting-as-character, venice

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#12

“The room was cavernous, divided into varied sections by high Moorish arches of a rusty peach, the ceiling of painted patterns set between strips of light blue wood. Bright colors everywhere, high curved windows bordered in violet, smaller windows inset with yellow and green stones and framed in aqua, banquettes upholstered in red and gold.
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― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, adventure, crime, drama, fiction, organised-crime, thriller, women-s-adventure

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#13

“Fairness is a leadership superpower. ”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: academic, fairness, foster, fundamental-needs, genuine, leaders, nurture, practical, suboptimal, workplace-culture

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#14

“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: alone, melancholy, reflection

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#15

“Learning who we truly are on the inside gives us the confidence of being ourselves regardless of the place or person.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

tags: confidence, emotional-healing, healing-journey, inner-child-healing, personal-growth, self-discovery, self-worth

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#16

“Cung went to his section commander Corporal Binh Chien Bui and spoke to him. He said, “Binh, come quickly, something strange is going on!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, war, war-recount

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#17

“Take a good look at my face. Do I have ‘stupid motherfucker’ written across my forehead?”
― Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge

tags: action, attitude, drama, mafia-action, mystery, romance

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#18

“The locals call me alligator man, not only because of my scar, but because I keep an alligator by the name of Emma on my boat. I caught her as a young ‘un back in Louisiana. She’s small and doesn’t take up much room. So far, I’ve had no complaints, although I have no illusions that at some point I will be forced to give her up. For now, what better watch dog could I have? No alarm system needed. I simply post my sign, ‘Beware of Alligator’ on the dock.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

tags: crime-fiction, murder-mystery

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#19

“I mean, I’d thought about where I would be in five years, what I wanted, but I guess I didn’t realize I’d already headed down a path.”
― Maria Jane, Perfect

tags: career-women, crossroads, independence-quotes, life-choices, quotes-to-live-by, reflective-reads, self-discovery, womens-fiction, womens-rights

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#20

“Today, she’d watch more closely”
― D.L. Maddox, Killer

tags: characterresolve, drama, fiction, killermystery, psycholiogical, quietpower, thriller, thrillerreads, vigilance, womeninfiction

43 likes

#21

“Their temporary home filled with the scent of soup, ink and fresh paper and the reassuring harmonic vibration of piano strings.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

tags: bookclubreads, familysaga, historicalfiction, literaryfiction, motherdaughter, musicinfiction, quietmoments

159 likes

#22

“If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics

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#23

“Your playmates sent him?” I asked, nodding at the dead man. “I only talked to him with this,” he said, patting the automatic on the bed, “but I reckon they did.” “How did it happen?” “It happened simple enough. I heard the door opening, and I switched on the light, and there he was, and I shot him, and there he is.”
― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

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#24

“His shrill cries flood the forest like light engulfing a silhouette.”
― Nelou Keramati

tags: mystery, paranormal, paranormal-romance, resonance, suspense, the-fray-theory, the-fray-theory-resonance, thriller, trilogy, urban-fantasy, ya, ya-paranormal, ya-romance, young-adult, young-adult-romance

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#25

“I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in our quiet life.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#26

“coaxed,”
― Wilson Rawls, Summer of the Monkeys

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#27

“He’s very pretty. For a human.”
“He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: clockwork-prince, magnus-bane

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