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#1

“It went against human nature to truly savor every moment and continually remain aware of all they had to be grateful for.”
― Katrina Kittle, The Kindness of Strangers

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#2

“They didn't speak a word, but it was still their best conversation in a long time.”
― Katrina Kittle, The Kindness of Strangers

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#3

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: creation, creative, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, worry

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#4

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

tags: longing, love

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#5

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational-faith

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#6

“I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. "Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with." Because once the context ends, so does the friendship”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

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#7

“I take a longer look at the words on her headstone.
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

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#8

“In fact, some theories of language development suggest that humans learned to dance and sing before we could talk, that music was actually the first human language.”
― Bruce D. Perry, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

tags: child-developmentpment, language, music

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#9

“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

tags: defeated, destroyed, older, spirit, suffer

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#10

“Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well."

"And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window?" I teased.

Sam turned bright red. "That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

tags: flirting, romance, sweet-talk, voyeurism

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#11

“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

tags: bird-by-bird, breaking-down-assignment, childhood, encouragement, homework, project, project-management, school, time, time-management, writing, writing-advice

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#12

“The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: depression, god

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#13

“We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#14

“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: happiness, life

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#15

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: inspirational, love

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#16

“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.”
― Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

tags: action, happiness, happy, love, others, sacrifice

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#17

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

tags: change, character, course, crime, failure, mistakes, pride, yield

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#18

“Only a fool could be in love with death.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

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#19

“No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?”
― Sophocles, Antigone

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#20

“A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

tags: fool, fools, genius, genius-quotes, genius-thinkers, genius-writers, geniuses, know-thyself, know-yourself, knowing-oneself, knowledge-of-self, position-yourself, weakness, weakness-and-strength, weakness-in-your-life, weakness-quotes, weaknesses

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#21

“I have been down many blind alleys in my attempts to come to terms with my emotions. I’ve repressed them, swallowed them, drowned them in drink, ascended above them in clouds of hemp, starved them out, interred them with food, transcended them in meditation, outrun them, outsmarted them with rationalization, exorcised them, handed them over to higher beings, transmuted them into pretty lights, and even briefly felt them before purging them in dramatic catharses that promised to render them finally extinct.”
― Pete Walker, The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame

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#22

“Man cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. – Alexis Canell”
― Pete Walker, The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame

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#23

“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

tags: childhood-trauma, individual, truth

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#24

“The towns make men ferocious because they make them corrupt. Mountains, sea, and forest make men reckless. They stir the wildness of men's nature, but do not necessarily destroy what is human.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#25

“Women play with their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#26

“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing instruction for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#27

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#28

“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”
― victor hugos, Les Misérables

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#29

“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

tags: consent, existence, horror, knowledge, western

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#30

“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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