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    Steven Wright
    “Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
    ― Steven Wright
    tags: amnesia, humor, memory
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    Emily Dickinson
    “open me carefully”
    ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters
    tags: correspondence, emily-dickinson, letter
    84 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: opportunity
    2254 likes

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    Barbara Delinsky
    “Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.”
    ― Barbara Delinsky, While My Sister Sleeps
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    Barbara Delinsky
    “What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.”
    ― Barbara Delinsky, Escape
    tags: children, mother, mothering, respect
    37 likes

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    Barbara Delinsky
    “I had nothing to fear from my father.
    Except his disappointment.
    Which was no small thing.”
    ― Barbara Delinsky, Escape
    tags: disappointment, fear, tather
    27 likes

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    Joyce Meyer
    “Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.”
    ― Joyce Meyer
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    Joyce Meyer
    “Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”
    ― Joyce Meyer, I Dare You: Embrace Life with Passion
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    Joyce Meyer
    “Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.”
    ― Joyce Meyer
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    Joyce Meyer
    “The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.”
    ― Joyce Meyer
    tags: secrets-sexual-abuse
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    Silver RavenWolf
    “As a girl, I used to believe that I could see and taste the air. I was TOLD that was impossible and forgot how to do so.”
    ― Silver RavenWolf, A Witch's Notebook: Lessons in Witchcraft
    tags: pagan
    48 likes

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  • #12
    Emily Dickinson
    “This is my letter to the world
    That never wrote to me”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: compassion, people, social-anxiety
    1468 likes

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  • #13
    Emily Dickinson
    “Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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  • #14
    Emily Dickinson
    “Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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  • #15
    Emily Dickinson
    “Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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  • #16
    Emily Dickinson
    “Witchcraft was hung, in History,
    But History and I
    Find all the Witchcraft that we need
    Around us, every Day -”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: history, witchcraft
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  • #17
    Emily Dickinson
    “When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: christianity, god, grief, jesus, religion, sorrow
    13 likes

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  • #18
    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “Don't ever give up.
    Don't ever give in.
    Don't ever stop trying.
    Don't ever sell out.
    And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment,
    pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.
    But never, ever, ever give up.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Tempter's Snare
    tags: commitment, dedication, drive, eena, inspirational, perserverance, persistence, resolve, richelle, richelle-goodrich
    264 likes

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    Octavia E. Butler
    “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories
    tags: creative-process, habit, inspiration, persistence, writing
    556 likes

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    Robert Fanney
    “In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed. ”
    ― Robert Fanney
    tags: inspiration, persistence, work
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  • #21
    “Go only where you are wanted. Go only when you are needed. Stay only if you are appreciated.”
    ― Linda Poindexter
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  • #22
    “When you can no longer think of a reason to continue, you must think of a reason to start over”
    ― Linda Poindexter
    tags: inspirational
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  • #23
    “Make the world a better place one person at a time. Start with yourself”
    ― Linda Poindexter
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  • #24
    “Sometimes falling flat on your face allows you to see things from a totally different perspective.”
    ― Linda Poindexter
    tags: inspirational
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  • #25
    “Refuse to ruin a perfectly good today by thinking about a bad yesterday”
    ― Linda Poindexter
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  • #26
    “You are not a rug…everyone may try to walk all over you, but you do not have to lie there and take it!”
    ― Linda Poindexter
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  • #27
    “One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.”
    ― Linda Poindexter
    tags: broken, fall-apart, inspirational
    56 likes

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    Ashley Poston
    “I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I'm possessed. By a whole lot of stupid.”
    ― Ashley Poston, Geekerella
    tags: fangirl, social-life
    53 likes

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  • #29
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: alone, antisocial, attitude, breakup, childish, childishness, complain, complaining, complexity, difficult-person, disregard, fail, fun, insult, insults, open-minded, peculiarity, people, rejection, remember, simplicity, snob, social-life, squabble, underate, underestimate, underestimation
    130 likes

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    Dennis E. Adonis
    “Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before.”
    ― Dennis E. Adonis
    tags: challenges, courage, failures, life, new-beginning, progress, restart, start-again, wisdom
    12 likes



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