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  • #4
    Richelle Mead
    “You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Frostbite
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  • #5
    Anne Rice
    “To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
    ― Anne Rice
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  • #6
    Anne Rice
    “Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt”
    ― Anne Rice
    tags: death
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    Asa Don Brown
    “Personal responsibility is the willingness to completely accept choices that we have made throughout our life.”
    ― Dr. Asa Don Brown
    tags: inspirational, motivational-psychologicall, waiting-to-live
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  • #8
    Asa Don Brown
    “Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices.”
    ― Asa Don Brown
    tags: waiting-to-live
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  • #9
    Asa Don Brown
    “Your core beliefs are the central part of your internal belief system.”
    ― Asa Don Brown
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  • #10
    Asa Don Brown
    “Forgiveness must be initiated before life can begin.”
    ― Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live
    tags: inspirational-speaker
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  • #11
    Asa Don Brown
    “Sadly, we give little thought or consideration to the messages that we entertain.”
    ― Asa Don Brown
    tags: waiting-to-live
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  • #12
    Asa Don Brown
    “Do not own negative self-talk.”
    ― Asa Don Brown
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  • #13
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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  • #14
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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  • #15
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
    tags: being-left, love, time, waiting
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  • #16
    Cassandra Clare
    “The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, jace-wayland
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  • #17
    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.”
    ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
    tags: becca-fitzpatrick, hush-hush, nora, patch
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  • #18
    Cassandra Clare
    “Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission."
    "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered.
    "Selling them on what?"
    Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: clary-fray, ebay, jace-wayland, myth
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  • #19
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
    tags: life
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  • #20
    Scott Adams
    “The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.”
    ― Scott Adams
    tags: food, humor, marriage
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  • #21
    Louise Erdrich
    “When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
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    Seth Grahame-Smith
    “Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.”
    ― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    tags: storytelling
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  • #23
    John Bunyan
    “This hill though high I covent ascend;
    The difficulty will not me offend;
    For I perceive the way of life lies here.
    Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. ”
    ― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
    tags: inspirational
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  • #24
    Seth Grahame-Smith
    “We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire”
    ― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    tags: libraries-vampires
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  • #25
    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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  • #26
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.”
    ― Charles Schultz
    tags: age, humor
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  • #27
    Garrison Keillor
    “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: absurd, cats, humor
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  • #28
    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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  • #29
    Seth Grahame-Smith
    “My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.”
    ― Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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  • #30
    Stephenie Meyer
    “When you can live forever what do you live for?”
    ― Stephenie Meyer
    tags: eternity, immortal, life, meaning
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  • #31
    “Tomorrow is promised to no one.”
    ― Clint Eastwood
    tags: humor, tomorrow
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  • #32
    Asa Don Brown
    “Change: How much do you want it? Change: How much do you need it?”
    ― Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live
    tags: dr-brown-s-book-waiting-to-live
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  • #33
    Muhammad Ali
    “Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
    ― Muhammad Ali
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