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    Denise Dowling Mortensen
    “I've never met a bug that hasn't made me jump.”
    ― Denise Dowling Mortensen, Bug Patrol
    tags: humor, kids-books, picture-books
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    “Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.”
    ― Phil Cooke, One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do
    tags: ideas, records, writing
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    Sara Gruen
    “When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.”
    ― sara gruen, Water for Elephants
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
    tags: self-revelation
    1073 likes

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  • #5
    Mitch Albom
    “I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: depression, inspirational
    387 likes

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    Anthony Horowitz
    “When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.”
    ― Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker
    148 likes

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    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
    11834 likes

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  • #8
    Jodi Picoult
    “Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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    Jodi Picoult
    “If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: death, loss, sisters
    2941 likes

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  • #10
    Jodi Picoult
    “It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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  • #11
    “A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.”
    ― Wayde Goodall, Why Great Men Fall
    tags: character, heart, leadership
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  • #12
    Maureen Corrigan
    “It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
    ― Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
    tags: books, people, reading
    1896 likes

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  • #13
    “If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right.”
    ― Evanescence
    tags: inspirational, life, people
    212 likes

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  • #14
    Steve Maraboli
    “The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: attachment, control, life, miserable, motivational, people, sick, stressed, unhealthy
    540 likes

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  • #15
    Ian Frazier
    “Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.”
    ― Ian Frazier
    tags: distance, people
    112 likes

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  • #16
    Carolee Dean
    “Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.”
    ― Carolee Dean, Take Me There
    tags: dylan-dawson, people, thought-provoking, words
    87 likes

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  • #17
    William Goldman
    “You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there.


    (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)”
    ― William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood
    tags: life, people
    40 likes

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  • #18
    Colette
    “I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.”
    ― Colette, The Pure and the Impure
    tags: acquaintances, mystery, people
    93 likes

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  • #19
    Ashly Lorenzana
    “By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.”
    ― Ashly Lorenzana
    tags: character, judgement, people
    92 likes

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  • #20
    “People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.”
    ― James McGregor
    tags: accomplishments, inspirational, people, philosophical
    23 likes

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  • #21
    Aimee Friedman
    “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”
    ― Aimee Friedman, Sea Change
    tags: people, summer, vacation
    32 likes

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  • #22
    Simon Van Booy
    “I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.”
    ― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
    tags: people, trust, trusting
    37 likes

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  • #23
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: important, people, rich, self-care, truth
    92 likes

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  • #24
    Christian O. Ortiz
    “Dont feel sorry for no one if they dont feel sorry for you”
    ― Christian Omar Ortiz
    tags: inspirational, people, sorry
    20 likes

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  • #25
    Dean Koontz
    “In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should.”
    ― Dean Koontz, Chase
    tags: books, characters, friends, humor, life, people
    12 likes

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  • #26
    Doug Dillon
    “Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.”
    ― Doug Dillon
    tags: identity, inspiration, mindfulness, people, philosophy
    33 likes

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  • #27
    Napoleon Hill
    “If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”
    ― Napoleon Hill
    tags: christianity, discipline, humanity, patience, people, relationships
    57 likes

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  • #28
    Libba Bray
    “When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.”
    ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
    tags: family, guilt, women
    85 likes

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  • #29
    C. JoyBell C.
    “The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: inspirational, inspirational-life, the-strength-of-a-woman, true-strength, wisdom-quotes, women, women-s-inspirational, women-s-strength
    775 likes

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  • #30
    Gayle Forman
    “Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”
    ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
    tags: loss
    1157 likes



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