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    Judith McCoy Miller
    “If we wait until life is in order before making our decision, we'll never make any”
    ― Judith McCoy Miller, An Uncertain Dream
    tags: mrs-devault
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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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    Dante Gabriel Rossetti
    “Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.”
    ― Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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    Bodie Thoene
    “Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”
    ― Bodie Thoene
    tags: anger, metaphor, thinking
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    Bodie Thoene
    “What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.”
    ― Bodie Thoene
    tags: choices, decisions, right
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    Conn Iggulden
    “Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it, you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it, the bag will be empty when you need it most.”
    ― Conn Iggulden, Genghis: Birth of an Empire
    tags: courage
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Ralph Ellison
    “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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    Steve Wozniak
    “If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
    ― Steve Wozniak
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Bodie Thoene
    “Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.”
    ― Bodie Thoene
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    Bodie Thoene
    “There is often grief that comes with loving, Moshe. But it is worth it.”
    ― Bodie Thoene, The Return to Zion
    tags: love, sadness, sorrow
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    Washington Irving
    “There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
    ― Washington Irving
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
    tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness
    2187 likes

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    Ovid
    “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
    ― Ovid
    tags: activism, change, inspirational, perseverance
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    Homer
    “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: heart, homer, the-iliad
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    Margaret Fuller
    “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
    ― Margaret Fuller
    tags: read, reader, reading
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    Aung San Suu Kyi
    “The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
    ― Aung San Suu Kyi
    tags: civil-rights
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    Dan Brown
    “Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
    tags: knowledge
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    Aristotle
    “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: fear, freedom
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    Hilary Mantel
    “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: facts, knowledge
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    Anna Quindlen
    “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
    ― Anna Quindlen
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    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    ― Herman Melville
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  • #24
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
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  • #25
    David Nicholls
    “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
    tags: hope, love
    2502 likes

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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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  • #27
    “When I do something dorky, I blame it on being homeschooled. When I do something brilliant, I blame it on being homeschooled”
    ― Jamie Grace
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
    27871 likes

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    D.H. Lawrence
    “We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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  • #30
    John Knowles
    “There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
    ― John Knowles, A Separate Peace
    2045 likes



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