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#1

“The first impressions with the ashram people are these sparkling interior experiences. The eyeballs can be peepholes into the Milky Way and beyond. You may mumble under your breath that the ashram people could be on something.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: contemplating, deep, descriptive, enteratining-read, humorous, informative, insightful, love, spiritual-journey, unforgettable

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#2

“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

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#3

“Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, engaging, fiction, literature, new-adult, romance, ya, ya-litterature

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#4

“Giving birth does not make you a mother. Being there daily in good times and bad to provide, care, comfort, teach, sing, feed, clothe, encourage, discipline, clean, hug, pray, listen, cry, experience, protect, kiss, read, advocate, bandage, educate, coach, cheer, laugh, play and love unconditionally...well, that's a mother.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: develop, encourgement, growth, inspire, laugh, love, oach, positive

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#5

“I have seen so many people try everything—prayer, fasting, accountability—yet still struggle. And then, in one moment of encountering the power of God, they are set free forever.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

tags: darkness, destiny, evil, god, kingdom, powerful, prayer, teachings, warfare, well-being

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#6

“Good morning,” one of the soldiers said. “I’m Captain Joseph Walker and this is Sergeant James Vanetten. We are members of the One-Hundred-and-First Airborne Division, Fort Campbell.”
Wanda nodded
“May we know your name?”
“Wanda May Divine.”
“Are David and Thomas the first and middle names of your husband?”
“Yes.”
“Is he currently deployed in Afghanistan?”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

tags: advocacy, emotional-strength, healing, loss, mental-health, perseverance, recovery, redemption, self-discovery, survival

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#7

“The Earl of Lancaster loudly spoke, “Piers Gaveston, this court finds you guilty of treason, of sodomy and sedition as well as many other crimes against God! You shall be taken to Blacklow Hill, which shall by your place of execution, and you shall be put to death by two of my Welsh soldiers! May God have mercy upon your soul!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

tags: biographical, culture, drama, england, enlightening, experience, heritage, personal-life, politics, royalty

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#8

“Light flashed in her eyes. In fact, it clung to her—flaring around her skin, her hair, her whole body. It was a trick of the eyes, his mind, when adrenaline hit his system. But she glowed. Vivid. Alive. And for a moment, he’d have given anything to be like her.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: compelling, drama, friends, friendship, humorous-fiction, journey, romantic-comedy, romcom, steamy-romance, suspensful

160 likes

#9

“Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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#10

“Trad moves to get a better view of the water falling in a continuous, glistening cascade from the uppermost level of the atrium to the lagoon below.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

tags: different, exciting, fantasy, original, science-fiction, thrilling, unique

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#11

“Inside the cavernous hall, beneath a giant stained-glass window, stood the future leaders of the world. Nobel Prize winners, tycoons of industry, brain surgeons, and a few dozen insurance salesmen.”
― Erich Segal, The Class

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#12

“American people, always in search of a bargain in the name of "saving money," send the money they earn to countries that produce these low-cost bargains. That money costs them their jobs and as well as our country’s wealth.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Why "a" Students Work for "c" Students and Why "b" Students Work for the Government: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Education for Parents

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#13

“I read her nasty, wicked thoughts—and she knows for sure that I am a Druid. She is totally warped and absolutely no doubt about it—evil!”
― C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals

tags: adventure, engaging, exciting, fantasy, life, suspense, teen, ya, ya-lit, young-adult

80 likes

#14

“You must enjoy the time and make the most of the experience because time slips away and before you realize it your youth has passed, and you are old.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

tags: adult-fiction, coming-of-age, erotic-romance, goodreads-quotes, life-advice, save-this-quote, wanderlust-reads, youth-and-time

139 likes

#15

“It’s your life”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: feel-good-fiction, friendship, growing-up, kids-books, kindness, life-lessons, middle-grade, support-system, talking-animals

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#16

“The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

tags: journalism

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#17

“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, detective, fiction, fiction-novel, murder, realistic, thriller

470 likes

#18

“Recognize there’s always value in taking the shot as you’re learning and building muscle memory. There is no such thing as perfect.”
― Chitra D. Nawbatt, The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success

tags: ambition, career-growth, courage, growth-mindset, resilience, self-improvement, taking-chances

99 likes

#19

“A French lieutenant was asked by the commander of the French forces, “Jean, it seems to me that many people are only saying the things they think that I want to hear. Accordingly, what I am getting is not information, it is fucking bullshit!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: american-army, dangerous, divided, division, french-army, helpless, humanity, invasion, political, vietnam

197 likes

#20

“We have you in common, so I guess misery loves company.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Mob Justice: A Scavenger Hunt Thriller

tags: character-chemistry, dark-humor, romantic-banter, slow-burn-energy, thriller-readers, witty-dialogue

48 likes

#21

“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: excuse, life, musings, photos, writers, writers-life

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#22

“You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#23

“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: moon, moonlight, painting, sculpture, sun, sunlight

103 likes

#24

“But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It’s hollow.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler

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#25

“It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you can’t help yourself you will stretch out your arms to embrace it. You will feel it before it comes and you will tense yourself for acceptance and the earth which is your eternal bed will tremble at the moment of your union.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

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#26

“My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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#27

“no,”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie

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