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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth
    tags: belonging, dreams, home, identity, longing, nostalgia, paradise-lost, search-for-meaning, strangeness
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    Helen Keller
    “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: lily-white-cleats
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: christianity, god, religion
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    Karen Blixen
    “I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
    ― Karen Blixen
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    Johnny Cash
    “I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.”
    ― Johnny Cash
    tags: black, hypocrisy, individuality, religion, status-quo
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    Johnny Cash
    “There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.”
    ― Johnny Cash, Cash
    tags: grief, inspirational, johnny-cash, loss
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Anne laughed.

    "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
    tags: love
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    Washington Irving
    “There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
    ― Washington Irving
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    José N. Harris
    “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
    ― José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love
    tags: grief, grieving, hope, loss, love, pain, sadness, strength, tears
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    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
    tags: absence, loss
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    Criss Jami
    “Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.”
    ― Criss Jami
    tags: broken, broken-hearts, comforting, crying, doctor, father, god, healing, heart, heartbreak, heavenly-father, hurt, listen, listening, loss, pain, recovery, tears
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: despair, hope
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'm in the depths of despair!" (Anne of Green Gables)”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl
    tags: memories
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  • #21
    “I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.”
    ― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution
    tags: alexander-hamilton, family, hamilton, hamilton-musical, kind, lin-manuel-miranda, love, sister, sisterhood
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  • #22
    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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    Karl Pilkington
    “[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.”
    ― Karl Pilkington
    tags: environment, jellyfish, ocean, water
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    C.S. Lewis
    “But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I don't think you're a waste of space.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dudley-dursley
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The ones who love us never really leave us, you can always find them in here.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: sirius-black
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  • #27
    “And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.”
    ― Herbert Kretzmer
    tags: les-miserables, musical
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    Victor Hugo
    “There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: soul
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    Osamu Dazai
    “This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
    tags: love, revolution
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    Karl Pilkington
    “They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.”
    ― Karl Pilkington, The Ricky Gervais Show - First, Second and Third Seasons
    tags: climate-change, environmentalism, fish, humour, ocean, science
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