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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “The Waverley sisters hadn't been close as children, but they were as thick as thieves now, the way adult siblings often are, the moment they realize that family is actually a choice.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
    tags: autumn, first-frost, lost-lake, sarah-addison-allen
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    Lucille Clifton
    “You might as well answer the door, my child,
    the truth is furiously knocking.”
    ― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
    tags: inspirational
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    Mo Yan
    “People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
    ― Mo Yan
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
    tags: logic, love
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    Daniel Defoe
    “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
    ― Daniel Defoe
    tags: diamond, soul
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, Snow
    tags: happiness, love
    3193 likes

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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    J.M. Barrie
    “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: faith, life, pixie-dust, trust
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    Jon Krakauer
    “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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    Brian Jacques
    “Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
    ― Brian Jacques, Redwall
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    Anna Akhmatova
    “If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
    ― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
    tags: love, music
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    Nelson DeMille
    “The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
    ― Nelson De Mille
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    Nalo Hopkinson
    “The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”
    ― Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring
    tags: death, death-and-humor, death-and-love, dying, loss
    1012 likes

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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
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    Manuel Puig
    “The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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    ― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: attitude, choice, giving, happiness, inspirational, kindness, life-and-living, life-lessons, motivational, positive-affirmation
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    Janna Cachola
    “[Team player vs team builder]
    Players focus on the wins and the loses.
    Builders focus on the team and future of the vision.
    Let's move our members from team player to team builder.”
    ― Janna Cachola
    tags: boss, bosslady, business, engagement, entrepreneur, highly-engages-teams, leadership, leading-teams, millenial, motivation, organisation, successful, team, team-builder, team-building, team-player, thinking, winning-team
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    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. ”
    ― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
    tags: responsibility
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    Gena Showalter
    “I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”
    ― Gena Showalter, Seduce the Darkness
    tags: antipathy, dislike, funny, hatred
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    Neil Gaiman
    “It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: librarians, libraries, national-library-week
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  • #25
    “If there's no chocolate in Heaven, I'm not going.”
    ― Jane Seabrook, Furry Logic Laugh at Life
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    Tara Sivec
    “I shouldn't be allowed to think when I'm drinking.”
    ― Tara Sivec, Seduction and Snacks
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: books, honesty, wisdom
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: appreciation, change, gratitude, inspirational, life, live-now, motivational, success, today
    973 likes

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  • #29
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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    Douglas E. Noll
    “Peace is not a noun; it’s a verb”
    ― Douglas E. Noll, De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less
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