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#1

“For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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#2

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: philosophy, poetry

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#3

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: emotion, heartbreak, lost-love, love, parting

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#4

“Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran

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#5

“Words to Live By"

Be careful what you're good at doing, because you'll probably do a lot of it.

Be careful what you praise your children for doing, because they'll do a lot of it.

Be careful what you criticize your children for doing, because they won't want to do it anymore.”
― Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar

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#6

“No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

tags: anarchy, ancap, fascism, freedom, individualism, libertarian, liberty, mafia, philosophy, politics, state, statism, taxation, theft, tyranny, voluntaryism

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#7

“Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

tags: life-and-living, life-lessons

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#8

“Sometimes keeping a secret seems like the right thing to do because telling the truth might hurt someone and makes it seem like you don't love them. But really, telling the truth is the right thing to do. It's the most loving thing to do.
-Kaylee”
― Ginny L. Yttrup, Words

tags: inspirational-life

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#9

“Kaylee, an innocent child, paid the price for others' poor choices—just like Christ, who was also completely innocent, paid the price for my choices.”
― Ginny L. Yttrup, Words

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#10

“Look beyond a person's actions and see their heart. Look for what's causing them to act the way they act, then you'll understand them better.”
― Ginny L. Yttrup, Words

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#11

“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

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#12

“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: understanding-oneself-and-others

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#13

“I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on. But the meanness usually wins out. (2)”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

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#14

“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

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#15

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

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#16

“But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.”
― Gayle Forman , Where She Went

tags: inspirational, where-she-went

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#17

“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

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#18

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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#19

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

tags: humour, sleep, waking-up

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#20

“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

tags: friendship

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#21

“In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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#22

“As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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#23

“Upright and do right make all right.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

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#24

“The ideal three stories a day are one favorite, one familiar, and one new, but the same book three times is also fine.”
― Mem Fox, Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever

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#25

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

tags: perseverance

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#26

“Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

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#27