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#1

“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”
― Andre Agassi

#2

“Even if it’s not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

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#3

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: imperfect, love

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#4

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

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#5

“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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#6

“...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

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#7

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

tags: influence, life, teaching

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#8

“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

tags: beatnik, cynical, funny, humour

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#10

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#11

“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: paraphrased

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#12

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”
― Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones: Everyone Needs a Miracle

tags: faith

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#13

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: belief, experience, faith, judging-from-experience, religion, unseen

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#14

“You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”
― Rick Warren

tags: faith, life, religion

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#15

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: paraphrased

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#16

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

tags: daughters, family, love, mothers

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#17

“I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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#18

“(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: motherhood, parenting

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#19

“I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: growing-up, parenting, parents

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#20

“No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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#21

“I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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#22

“I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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#23

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: adulthood, success, value

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#24

“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
― Jason Mraz

tags: failure, inspirational, life, success, truth, winning

738 likes

#25

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: mistakes, success

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#26

“I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green and Other Things to Consider

tags: inspiration

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#27

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching

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#28

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#29

“Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be reshaped by fiddling with their parts. They shape our lives far more than we realize—they are so strong, in fact, that they cause our brains to cling to them at the exclusion of all else, including common sense.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

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#30

“THE FRAMEWORK: • Identify the routine • Experiment with rewards • Isolate the cue • Have a plan”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

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#31

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be." - William James”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

tags: habits, life-and-living, life-changing

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