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“Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: gentleness

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#2

“Rested, shaved, coffee’d, steaked, you will be a different man.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain

tags: coffee, rest

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#3

“The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain

tags: endurance, victory

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#4

“It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: changing-people, changing-peoples-minds

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#5

“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: wisdom

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#6

“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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#7

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
― William Arthur Ward

tags: curiosity, leadership, mentoring, teachers, teaching

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#8

“Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander

tags: expectations, life, love, peace

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#9

“Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: spring

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#10

“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#11

“Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: antoine-de-saint-exupéry, motivation, teaching

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#12

“I am disposed to be as content as a queen, and you try to stir me up to restlessness! To what end?"
To the end of turning to profit the talents which God has committed to your keeping; and of which he will surely one day demand a strict account.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#13

“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: friendship, happiness, inspirational

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#14

“Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded, flickered: Not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out, and then I felt dark indeed.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: disappointment, hope

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#15

“Reckless behavior, particularly in young boys, may be the uncontrolled expression of a legitimate, even Godly, desire to strive after great and noble deeds. And when the desire for adventure follows a God-honoring course, exciting things can happen.”
― Hal and Melanie Young

tags: children, parenting, religious

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#16

“It may be that mothers have a hard time discerning between when sons need comforting and when they need bucking up. Here's a rule of thumb: If he hasn't faced the trial yet, or he's in the midst of it - encourage him. If he's been to the wars and is limping home wounded - comfort him. Once the wounds are bound up, encourage him to rise and face the fight again.”
― Hal and Melanie Young

tags: children, mothering, parenting, religious

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#17

“A careless risk undertaken thoughtlessly or in pursuit of a thrill is recklessness, but a hazard confronted for the glory of God is a different matter altogether.”
― Hal and Melanie Young

tags: entrepreneurship, parenting-teenagers, religious, risk

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#18

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

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#19

“Compulsion is the death of friendship.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain

tags: friendship

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#20

“Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain

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#21

“What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what?”
― Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain

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#22

“One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain

tags: being, intentional-living, life

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#23

“Jack and Stephen were neither of them human until the first pot of coffee was down, hot and strong.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain

tags: coffee, coffee-lifestyle

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#24

“Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: dill, inspirational, landscape, mockingbird, scout, season, summer

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#25

“If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

tags: philosophical, psychological

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#26

“I could either study meaning or I could experience it.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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#27

“God's image has been imprinted uniquely on each of us. In God's infinite creativity there are no duplicates; you are the only you there has ever been or ever will be.”
― Dick Staub, About You: Fully Human, Fully Alive

tags: enneagram, gods-image, personality

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#28

“For I do not seek to understand in order that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe-that unless I believe I shall not understand.”
― St. Anselm

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#29

“This invitation [to deny oneself] is less about depriving the self, and more about disowning, or renouncing a relationship with the part of ourself that is not what God created us to be.”
― Marilyn Vancil, Self to Lose - Self to Find: A Biblical Approach to the 9 Enneagram Types

tags: 9-types, abundant-life, christian-living, christianity, denying-self, enneagram, personality

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#30

“Moral duty has weight, things that have weight have gravity.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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