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    Sylvia Plath
    “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
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    John Green
    “Everything that comes together falls apart. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stopped suffering when they did.”
    ― John Green
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    James Baldwin
    “Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it”
    ― James Baldwin
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    “So, why do you write these strong female characters?

    Because you’re still asking me that question."

    [Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: femininism, progress, understanding
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Samuel Beckett
    “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
    tags: failure, perseverance
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    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: perseverance, suicide, survival
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: perseverance, progress, thoughtful
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    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
    ― Mary Anne Radmacher
    tags: courage, perseverance, tenacity
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    Martin Luther
    “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: inspiration, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
    ― Winston Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
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    Harper Lee
    “Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: character, courage, inspirational, moral-courage, perseverance, tenacity
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
    but to be fearless in facing them.

    Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
    for the heart to conquer it.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: danger, fearlessness, pain, perseverance
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    George Burns
    “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
    ― George Burns
    tags: family, happiness, humor
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
    ― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: age, family
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    Jay McInerney
    “The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
    ― Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages
    tags: family, friendship, humor
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    Rick Riordan
    “Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
    tags: family
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    Mitch Albom
    “All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    tags: family, inspirational, life, parents
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    “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres
    tags: age, exercise, family, grandmothers, grandparents, humor, walking
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    Oscar Wilde
    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
    tags: family, food, thanksgiving
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: broken-families, divorce, family, family-ties, forgiveness, hate, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, marriage, moving-on, soul-ties, the-nature-of-family, true-family
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
    tags: family
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Marisa de los Santos
    “No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.”
    ― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In
    tags: dad, father, mom, mother, parenthood, parenting
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    Rachel Vincent
    “When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people.

    And now he was gone.”
    ― Rachel Vincent, Alpha
    tags: death, father, faythe-sanders, lost, love
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
    tags: father, ghost, hamlet, shakespeare
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff
    tags: child, father, mother, palahniuk, parent, snuff
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    Melina Marchetta
    “This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.”
    ― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road
    tags: died, father, unnatural
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