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    Cathy Guisewite
    “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
    ― Cathy Guiswite
    tags: eyes, funny, lemons
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    “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
    ― Mason Cooley
    tags: books
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    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: inspirational-quotes, strength-and-courage
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    Veronica Roth
    “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: dauntless, divergent, fearless, four, tris
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  • #5
    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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  • #6
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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  • #10
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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  • #11
    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship, inspirational
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  • #12
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
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  • #13
    Kiera Cass
    “Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The One
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    Kiera Cass
    “True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Selection
    tags: inconvenient, love, relationship, true-love
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  • #15
    Francis of Assisi
    “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
    ― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
    tags: inspirational
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    Francis of Assisi
    “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
    ― St. Francis Of Assisi
    tags: inspirational
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    Francis of Assisi
    “For it is in giving that we receive.”
    ― St. Francis of Assisi
    tags: generosity, giving, kindness
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  • #18
    Kiera Cass
    “Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Siren
    tags: book, books, kahlen, kiera-cass, reading, siren, the-siren
    225 likes

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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
    tags: books
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    Marie Rutkoski
    “Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.”
    ― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse
    tags: courage, freedom, happiness
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    Marie Rutkoski
    “Arin smiled. It was a true smile, which let her know that all the others he had given her were not.”
    ― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse
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    Marie Rutkoski
    “You might not think of me as your friend,' Kestrel told Arin, 'but I think of you as mine.”
    ― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse
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  • #25
    Marissa Meyer
    “Captain?"
    "Yeah?"
    "Do you think it was destiny that brought us together?"
    He squinted and, after a thoughtful moment, shook his head. "No. I'm pretty sure it was Cinder.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cress
    tags: cinder, cress, fate, lunar-chronicles, thorne
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  • #26
    Marissa Meyer
    “A relieved grin filled up Thorne’s face. “We’re having another moment, aren’t we?”

    “If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, then I guess we are.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cress
    tags: fate, love, we-make-our-own-paths
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Captain,” she murmured.
    “I think I’m in love with you.”
    An eyebrow shot up. She counted six beats of his heart before, suddenly, he laughed.
    “Don’t tell me it took you two whole days to realize that. I must be losing my touch.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cress
    tags: cress, thorne
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  • #29
    Marissa Meyer
    “A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond.”
    “If only we had a captain here.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet
    tags: captain-thorne
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  • #30
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
    45292 likes



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