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#1

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#2

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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#3

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

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#4

“Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. ”
― Rick Riordan

tags: children, punishment, young-people, youth

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#5

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
― Jules Renard

tags: writing

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#6

“It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.”
― Jules Renard

tags: aging-gracefully, inspirational, living, old-age

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#7

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

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#8

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
― Erich Segal

tags: love

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#9

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

tags: humanity, stories, storytelling

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#10

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#11

“It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.”
― Timothy Keller

tags: faith

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#12

“Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.”
― Timothy Keller

tags: respect, tolerance

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#13

“Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.”
― Timothy Keller

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#14

“I managed to beat Michael Phelps’ 400 meter IM time. And not only did I beat his time, but I did it in exactly 200 meters.”
― Jarod Kintz, So many chairs, and no time to sit

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#15

“If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.”
― Beverly Cleary

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#16

“Women! They think it so romantic to break the rules. But what are we if we don't hold to tradition, am I right?" ~Darian”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

tags: aladdin, women

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#17

“The quickest way to spoil a friendship is to wake somebody up in the morning before he is ready.”
― E B White

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#18

“We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.”
― Beth Moore, So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

tags: insecurity, lies

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#19

“You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.”
― Beth Moore, Esther: It's Tough Being a Woman

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#20

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#21

“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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#22

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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#23

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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#24

“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: philosophy

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#25

“Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

tags: introversion, introverts, lions, public-speaking

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#26

“No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short”
― Stephen Keague, The Little Red Handbook of Public Speaking and Presenting

tags: presentation-skills, presentations, presenting, public-speaking, speeches

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