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#1

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

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#2

“Is he... is Dimitri a Strigoi?"
Mason hesitated only a moment, like he was afraid to answer me, and then—he nodded.
My heart shattered. My world shattered.”
― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss

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“He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Four Fists

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#4

“It isn't ever delicate to live.”
― Kay Ryan

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#5

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: music, power-of-music

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#6

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#7

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

tags: normalcy

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#8

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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#9

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: adversity, american-revolution, trials

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#10

“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
― Lorrie Moore, Like Life

tags: hide, protect, shelter

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#11

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

tags: inspirational, patience

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#12

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: funny

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#13

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

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#14

“Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.”
― Shirley Hazzard

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#15

“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer

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#16

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

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#17

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#18

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

tags: acceptance, life, love, worth

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#19

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

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#20

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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#21

“Over the river and through the wood
To grandfather's house we go”
― Lydia Maria Francis Child

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#22

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#23

“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.”
― Miranda July

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#24

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

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#25

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

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#26

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

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#27

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

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#28

“I am a citizen of the world.”
― Sylvia Beach

tags: citizenship, identity, world

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#29

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

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#30

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

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