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#1

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#2

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

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#3

“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

tags: life, love, music, simile, song

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#4

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
― Aristotle

tags: greek, mentors, philosophy, teachers

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#5

“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

tags: learning, teachers

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#6

“Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware the rain.
Beware the snow.
Beware the man
You think you know.
-Songs of Sapphique”
― Catherine Fisher, Incarceron

tags: beware, people-will-hurt-you, rain, snow, walls

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#7

“She loves him so
but he didn't stay.
The wind can't blow
this storm away.”
― Phoebe Stone, Romeo Blue

tags: away, blow, but, can-t, didn-t, gone, he, him, love, loves, perhaps, sad, she, so, song, stay, storm, the, this, thought, wind, world-war-two

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#8

“Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

tags: crazy-hair, first-love, morning

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#9

“I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.”
― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days

tags: morning, mysticism, shaman, sky

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#10

“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”
― Jo Walton

tags: appreciation, nature, sunrise, sunset

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#11

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: ideas

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#12

“The Voice

There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you--just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: books, inner-voice, leaders, parents, right, teachers, true-to-self, wring

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#13

“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: babies, change, humor, love, parents

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#14

“If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn't that be your mother?”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: friends, friendship, love, mom, mother, mothers-day, relationships, richelle, richelle-goodrich

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#15

“Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear "angelic and saintly" as if they never had horrible youth days.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: advice, advicing, advise, advising, angel, angelic, angels, bad-character, bad-life, bad-parents, be-honest, behavior, behaviour, children, clean, dirty, father, fathers-day, food-for-thought, god, good-charcter, good-father, good-life, good-mother, good-parents, happy-fathers-day, happy-mothers-day, honesty, horrible, horrible-life, integrity, israelmore-ayivor, lessons, mistakes, mother, mothers-day, my-father, my-mother, parent, parenting, parents, past, past-life, prevent, prevention, prevention-is-better-than-cure, repeat, repeat-mistakes, saint, saintly, salf-righteous, teach-your-children, teaching, tel-the-truth, train-up-a-child, training, unspotted, young, youth, youth-days

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#16

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

tags: daughters, family, love, mothers

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#17

“Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”
― Debra Ginsberg

tags: autism, children, motherhood, mothers, parenthood, parenting, parents

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#18

“No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: beds, family, housekeeping, mothers

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#19

“Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: arranged-marriages, civil-union, domestic-partnerships, mothers, sacrifices

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#20

“It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

tags: house-rules, jodi-picoult, mothers

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#21

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: melancholy

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#22

“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: love, melancholy

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#23

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

tags: melancholy, night, sad, winter

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#24

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

tags: experience

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#25

“She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

tags: insane, moon

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#26

“Once upon a time, powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that water would go mad.

The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to poison. The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and the inspectors, however, had also drunk the poisoned water, and they thought the king’s decisions were absurd and resolved to take notice of them.

When the inhabitants of the kingdom heard these decrees, they became convinced that the king had gone mad and was now giving nonsensical orders. The marched on the castle and called for his abdication.

In despair the king prepared to step down from the throne, but the queen stopped him, saying: ‘Let us go and drink from the communal well. Then we will be the same as them.’

And that was what they did: The king and queen drank the water of madness and immediately began talking nonsense. Their subjects repented at once; now that the king was displaying such ‘wisdom’, why not allow him to rule the country?

The country continued to live in peace, although its inhabitants behaved very differently from those of its neighbors. And the king was able to govern until the end of his days.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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#27

“You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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#28

“Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy. Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs. I mean people who are different from others.'
Like you?'
On the other hand,' Zedka continued, pretending not to have heard the remark, 'you have Einstein, saying that there was no time or space, just a combination of the two. Or Columbus, insisting that on the other side of the world lay not an abyss but a continent. Or Edmund Hillary, convinced that a man could reach the top of Everest. Or the Beatles, who created an entirely different sort of music and dressed like people from another time. Those people--and thousands of others--all lived in their own world.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decide Morir - Tapa Azul

tags: crazy, different

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#29

“Death frees from the fear of dying”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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#30

“I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: melancholy, sadness

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