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“That was how change came she supposed, in the quiet of things unspoken and truths unacknowledged. (The Great Alone)”
― Kristen Hannah

tags: change, truth

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#2

“Some of the hardest things you go through will teach you the most.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Prayer Box

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“Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don’t waste your time crying over what you’re not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can’t see all the beautiful things around you.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

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#4

“All of life is quilted from the scraps of what once was and is no more- the places we have been, the memories we have made, the people we have known, that which has been long loved but has grown threadbare over time and can be worn no longer. We keep only pieces. All colors, all shapes, all sizes.
"All waiting to be stitched into the pattern only you can see.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Prayer Box

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#5

“...you're going to have to face this. You can't let other people decide your life for you...Other people's judgement doesn't have any power unless you offer yourself up for trial, so don't.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Prayer Box

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#6

“best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain’t no other good way of livin’.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

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#7

“Normal doesn't happen overnight when the world around and between you has always been off-balance.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Prayer Box

tags: change, life, normal

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#8

“But ain't it always the way, Birdie, that the easiest faults to find in other people are the ones you got yourself?”
― Lisa Wingate, A Month of Summer

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#9

“Through all my adult life, I had wanted to know exactly where I was going and what path to take to get there. I had never considered the beauty of where I was.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

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#10

“healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one’s point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Book of Lost Friends

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#11

“A man who doesn’t stand for what is right dies his own death well before it happens.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Story Keeper

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#12

“Sometimes you need that soft place to fall. That’s your family, your faith. The stuff that doesn’t change when everything else does.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Language of Sycamores

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#13

“Sometimes life moves so fast, the road splits in an instant, and you only have a heartbeat to decide which way to turn.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

tags: decisions, direction, life

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#14

“Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this or some of that or all of this and none of that. We make trade-offs we think are best at the time.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

tags: choices-and-consequences, life, paradox, paradoxes, trade-offs

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#15

“Sometimes God puts a new path under your feet, not because you think you're ready to walk it, but because He knows that's the way you need to go.”
― Lisa Wingate, Word Gets Around

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#16

“I’ve finally come to fully understand that you can’t fix another person. You can’t fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it. You have to wait for other people to fix themselves.”
― Lisa Wingate, Sisters

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#17

“She looked around the room then, and her eyes got misty, and she said we kids oughta remember there was a time when some folks had it a lot harder than others. I couldn’t see how things were so different now.”
― Lisa Wingate, Dandelion Summer

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#18

“When we lose our stories, we lose ourselves.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Story Keeper

tags: stories

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#19

“the past travels with you. It’s whether you run from it or learn from it that makes all the difference.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Book of Lost Friends

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#20

“I wished it were that simple... just read a map and suddenly we would know where we were meant to end up and how to get there. But growing up is never that easy, no matter what age you are.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

tags: direction, life, questions

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#21

“There are tons of things I could and probably should be doing for work right now. But at some point, you have to put it aside and get busy with the things that really matter.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

tags: family, important-things-in-life, rest, time

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#22

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials

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#23

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: creation, creative, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, worry

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#24

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues

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#25

“Don't Just

Don't just learn, experience.
Don't just read, absorb.
Don't just change, transform.
Don't just relate, advocate.
Don't just promise, prove.
Don't just criticize, encourage.
Don't just think, ponder.
Don't just take, give.
Don't just see, feel.
Don’t just dream, do.
Don't just hear, listen.
Don't just talk, act.
Don't just tell, show.
Don't just exist, live.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: act, action, change, criticize, doing, dream, dreams, encouragement, experience, feeling, giving, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, listening, living, optimism, optimistic, ponder, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, thinking, transform

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#26

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books, reading, truth

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#27

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing, writing-advice

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#28

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
― Hayley Williams

tags: falling, knowing, lesson-on-living, life, paramore, singer, stand, success, truth, understanding

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#29

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: soul, truth

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#30

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: open-mindedness, prejudice, truth

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