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#1

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47067 likes

#2

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

128886 likes

#3

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

tags: beauty, life

24273 likes

#4

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

20225 likes

#5

“I bought you something" Willows blurts out.
"You bought...What?"
Willow closes her eyes for a second. She's a little surprised she's going to give it to him after all, but there's no going back now. She has to.

"At the bookstore." She reaches into her bag again, and pushes the package across the table towards him.
Guy takes the book out of the bag slowly, Willow waits for him to look disappointed, to look confused that she would buy him such a battered, old-

"I love it when used books have notes in the margins, it's the best," Guy says as he flips through the pages. "I always imagine who read it before me." He pauses and looks at one of Prospero's speeches. "I have way too much homework to read this now, but you know what? Screw it. I want to know why it's your favorite Shakespeare. Thank you, that was really nice of you. I mean, you really didn't have to."

"But I did anyway," Willow says so quietly she's not even sure hears her.

Hey," Guy frowns for a second. "You didn't write anything in here."

"Oh, I didn't even think...I, well, I wouldn't even know what to write," Willow says shyly.

"Well, maybe you'll think of something later," he says.

Willow watches Guy read the opening. There's no mistaking it. His smile is genuine, and she can't help thinking that if she can't make David look like this, at least she can do it for someone.”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

tags: caring-heart-warming, friendship, gift, gracious, imperfect, personalization, reading, self-doubt, self-harm, used-books, used-bookstore

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#6

“Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: angels, beautiful-person, beauty-in-dark-places, broken-people, caring, christ, confident, crowns, dark-angels, daughters-of-god, different, giving, good-hearted, humanity, imperfect, impossible-people, inner-beauty, inner-light, leaders, loving, overcome, passionate-living, peaceful-warriors, perfect, prodigal-daughters, prodigal-son, queens, rise-up, self-love, self-respect, sensitive, spiritual, survivors, thistles, thorns

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#7

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: existentialism, passion, struggle

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#8

“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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#9

“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

tags: existence, existentialism, maturity, youth

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#10

“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program, that is to say, ‘mercy’ killing of all those who have lost their social usefulness, be it because of old age, incurable illness, mental deterioration, or whatever handicap they may suffer. Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: dignity, existentialism, human-dignity, meaning, nihilism, usefulness

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#11

“No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!”
― T D Jakes

tags: christian, god, love, marriage, men, religion, spirituality, women

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#12

“There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . .”
― Charles Spurgeon

tags: bible, christian, faith, inspirational

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#13

“Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.”
― William P. Young, The Shack

tags: christian

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#14

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”
― John Bunyan

tags: christian, inspirational, prayer, words

561 likes

#15

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
― Corrie Ten Boom

tags: christian, god, jesus, pray, prayer

546 likes

#16

“Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!”
― Charles Spurgeon

tags: charles-spurgeon, christian, evangelism, share, witness

310 likes

#17

“When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends.”
― Helen Steiner Rice

tags: christian, friends, inspiration

241 likes

#18

“We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.”
― Max Lucado, Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart, Feeling His Love

tags: christian, christian-life, christian-living, christianity, heaven

238 likes

#19

“What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
The greatness of God not admired.
The power of God not praised.
The truth of God not sought.
The wisdom of God not esteemed.
The beauty of God not treasured.
The goodness of God not savored.
The faithfulness of God not trusted.
The commandments of God not obeyed.
The justice of God not respected.
The wrath of God not feared.
The grace of God not cherished.
The presence of God not prized.
The person of God not loved.
That is sin.”
― John Piper

tags: christian, god, sin, what-is-sin

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#20

“Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

tags: alone, christian, fight, inspirational, lord

223 likes

#21

“God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.”
― Max Lucado (Grace for the Moment)

tags: christian, inspirational

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#22

“A woman of God may look like other women but she is unique, because she looks up to God in all that she does.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

tags: gift-gugu-mona-books, powerful-woman, unique, woman-of-god, woman-of-virtue

4 likes

#23

“A man of God doesn't lead a woman through dictatorship, he leads her through a partnership guided by God.”
― Stephan Labossiere, He Who Finds A Wife: A Man's Guide To Finding The Woman & Love He Desires

tags: man-of-god, relationships, relationships-quotes

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#24

“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

tags: self-destruction, want, wanting

748 likes

#25

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

tags: russian-soul

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#26

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: ink, invisible, pages, writing

756 likes

#27

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: affection, communication, heartwarming, human-connections, human-nature, humanism, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, relationships

8576 likes

#28

“Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: platonic-love

78 likes

#29

“Mental illness

People assume you aren’t sick
unless they see the sickness on your skin
like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting.

My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s
Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better?
Have you tried not being sad, not being sick?
Have you tried being more like me?
Have you tried shutting up?

Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying,
and yes, I am still sick.

Sometimes monsters are invisible, and
sometimes demons attack you from the inside.
Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth
does not mean they aren’t ripping through me.
Pain does not need to be seen to be felt.

Telling me there is no problem
won’t solve the problem.

This is not how miracles are born.
This is not how sickness works.”
― Emm Roy, The First Step

tags: chronic-illness, chronic-pain, emotional-pain, invisible-illness, mental-disorder, mental-health, mental-illness, misunderstood, pain, poem, prejudice, stigma

382 likes

#30

“The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.”
― Adam Levin, The Instructions

tags: betrayal, fear, misunderstood

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