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  • #1
    Natasha Campbell-McBride
    “I don't believe that there are any situations or any person on this planet who can not be helped, whose life can not be made better. And many of these situations can be cured. If your doctor does not know something, it does not mean that the knowledge does not exist elsewhere. No body is beyond hope. No body!”
    Natasha Campbell-McBride

  • #3
    Barack Obama
    “If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”
    Barack Obama

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “the gods did not desire flawless souls, but great ones. I think that very darkness is where the greatness grows from, as flowers from the soil. I am not sure, in fact, if greatness can bloom without it.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls

  • #6
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

  • #7
    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    May Sarton

  • #8
    bell hooks
    “To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.”
    Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

  • #9
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

  • #10
    Maureen Johnson
    “Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.”
    Maureen Johnson, The Key to the Golden Firebird
    tags: cats

  • #11
    Sarah Dessen
    “We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone. ”
    Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

  • #12
    Kelley Skovron
    “He would talk about how important all music was. How it took us--not just the people who played it but the people who heard it--to a place above the normal boring world.”
    Jon Skovron, Struts & Frets

  • #13
    Sarah Dessen
    “The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.”
    Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

  • #14
    Kelley Skovron
    “I've heard people say that they lose themselves in a kiss. But in that moment, it was the opposite for me. I felt like I found myself. Not how I wished I was, or who I was afraid I was becoming, but who I really was.”
    Jon Skovron, Struts & Frets

  • #15
    Sarah Dessen
    “After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.”
    Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

  • #16
    Kelley Skovron
    “Because sometimes I was tired of feeling so much and I just wanted to shut down and not feel anything. But I guess I wasn't wired that way. All I could do was write about it. Get it out of my head and onto something like paper that I could manage easier.”
    Jon Skovron, Struts & Frets

  • #17
    Deepak Chopra
    “When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”
    Deepak Chopra

  • #18
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    Rumi

  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    Mary Oliver
    “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
    Mary Oliver

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    Rachel Naomi Remen
    “Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. ”
    Rachel Naomi Remen, My Grandfather's Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging

  • #24
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #25
    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #26
    Barbara Marciniak
    “Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.”
    Barbara Marciniak

  • #27
    Albert Einstein
    “I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #27
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #28
    Craig Thompson
    “You're more than a story.”
    Craig Thompson, Habibi

  • #29
    Mary Oliver
    “Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
    Mary Oliver

  • #30
    Leo Tolstoy
    “You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace



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