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  • #1
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #2
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • #3
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Believing takes practice.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

  • #4
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

  • #5
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • #6
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

  • #7
    Lorraine Hansberry
    “Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
    Lorraine Hansberry

  • #8
    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #9
    Roald Dahl
    “Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #10
    Paulo Coelho
    “There must be a language that doesn’t depend on words, the boy thought… He was learning lots of new things. Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and weren’t really new, but that he had never perceived before. And he hadn’t perceived them because he had become accustomed to them…”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #11
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    John A. Shedd

  • #12
    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #13
    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    James Baldwin

  • #14
    James Baldwin
    “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
    James A. Baldwin

  • #15
    James Baldwin
    “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
    James Baldwin

  • #16
    James Baldwin
    “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
    James Baldwin

  • #17
    James Baldwin
    “Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
    James Baldwin

  • #18
    James Baldwin
    “I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
    James Baldwin

  • #19
    “The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.”
    Myles Munroe

  • #20
    “Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.”
    Myles Munroe, Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship

  • #21
    “Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine.”
    Bob Carter

  • #22
    Desmond Tutu
    “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
    Desmond Tutu (Foreword)

  • #23
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #24
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #25
    Paulo Coelho
    “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #26
    Paulo Coelho
    “I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #27
    Stephen R. Covey
    “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #28
    R.H. Sin
    “She's strong but she's exhausted.”
    R.H. Sin

  • #29
    Matthew Desmond
    “it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. The reason is simple: without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.”
    Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

  • #30
    Rachel Hollis
    “When you really want something, you will find a way. When you don’t really want something, you’ll find an excuse.”
    Rachel Hollis, Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be



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