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  • #1
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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  • #2
    Emily X.R. Pan
    “There's no point in wishing. We can't change anything about the past. We can only remember. We can only move forward.”
    ― Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After
    tags: inspirational
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  • #3
    Emily X.R. Pan
    “Once you figure out what matters, you'll figure out how to be brave.”
    ― Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After
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    Emily X.R. Pan
    “Believing is a type of magic. It can make something true.”
    ― Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After
    tags: belief
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  • #5
    Emily X.R. Pan
    “The purpose of memory is to remind us how to live.”
    ― Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After
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  • #6
    Cheryl Strayed
    “Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”
    ― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
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  • #7
    Cheryl Strayed
    “The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.”
    ― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
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  • #8
    Cheryl Strayed
    “You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”
    ― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
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  • #9
    Cheryl Strayed
    “You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.”
    ― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
    tags: comfort, justifications, success, your-life
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  • #10
    Cheryl Strayed
    “Withholding love distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel.
    So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word "love" to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.”
    ― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
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  • #11
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “Where we come from leaves its fingerprints all over us, and if you know how to read the signs of a place, you know a little bit more who someone is.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
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    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “And I know the past isn't a mirror image of the future, but it's a reflection of what can be; and when your first love breaks your heart, the shards of that can draw blood for a long, long time.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
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  • #13
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “It's wild to miss someone so much, and yet in order to care for them you have to constantly say goodbye.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
    tags: missing-someone
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  • #14
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “...you can't control how people look at you, but you can control how far back you pull your shoulders and how high you lift your chin”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
    tags: inspirational
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  • #15
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “The world is a turntable that never stops spinning; as humans we merely choose the tracks we want to sit out and the ones that inspire us to dance.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
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  • #16
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “I've had a lot of things to feel ashamed about and I've learned most of them are other people's problems, not mine.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
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  • #17
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “People say that you're stuck with the family you're born into. And for most people, that's probably true. But we all make choices about people. Who we want to hold close, who we want to remain in our lives, and who we are just fine without.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
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  • #18
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “And ain’t that what it means to be a sister? Holding things tight when the other one is falling apart?”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
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  • #19
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “Trust. Yourself, mainly, but the world, too.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
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  • #20
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “I feel like something has risen inside me too, and it tastes a bit like hope.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
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  • #21
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “I think you should write about the one that scares you most. Taking risks and making choices in spite of fear—it’s what makes our life story compelling.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
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  • #22
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “Everything changes. I'll learn to be fine.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
    tags: change, change-quote, cooking, with-the-fire-on-high, ya, ya-quotes
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  • #23
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “This stuff is complicated. But it's like i'm some long division problem folks keep wanting to parcel into pieces, and they don't reduce, homies. The whole of me is Black. The whole of me is whole.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
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  • #24
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “I was that girl your moms warns you about being friends with. And warns you about becoming”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
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  • #25
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “What better way to take a leap of faith than to set something on fire and trust it will not only come out right, but that it will be completely delicious?”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
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  • #26
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “As to your last assignment, I did make up a recipe inspired by my name. Although Julio has told me before it means "faith," I don't think I understood why my mother might have wanted to name me that until this year. And so I decided to make a remix of flambé shrimp à la Emoni, because what better way to take a leap of faith than to set something on fire and trust it will not only come out right, but that it will be completely delicious?”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
    tags: faith, leap-of-faith, shrimp, symbolic
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  • #27
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: excuse, improvement, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, respect
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  • #28
    Mary Balogh
    “I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.”
    ― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction
    tags: hurt, respect
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  • #29
    Amit Kalantri
    “I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.”
    ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
    tags: breaking-up, breakup, breakups, compromise, human, humans, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, love, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, philosophy, respect, respectable, respected, respectful, respecting, respecting-others, respecting-yourself, self-respect, wisdom, wisdom-quotes
    481 likes



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