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“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon

“I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.”
― Margaret Mead

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.”
― Judy Blume

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”
― Howard Zinn

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.”
― Anne Lamott

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

“I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”
― Anne Lamott

“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”
― Anne Lamott

“Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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― Ann Patchett

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets. ”
― John Lennon

“It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451