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“One note from one bird is better than a million words...”
― Emily Dickinson, Envelope Poems

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional.”
― Tim Hansel

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

“If you find one true friend in life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed.”
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

“You cannot ask things to do what they are not meant to do. Eventually, they will break.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“I am every age, up to my own.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Love wins, love always wins.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Embrace aging.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops -Henry Adams”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“Without forgiveness there can be no future. Forgiveness is not a nebulous spiritual thing. It is practical politics.”
― Suu Kyi, Aung San, Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

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

“You cannot put a fire out!
A thing that can ignite can go itself-
without a flame-
E'en through the darkest night!”
― Emily Dickinson

“Hope is the thing with feathers”
― Emily Dickinson

“THE MOON was but a chin of gold
A night or two ago,
And now she turns her perfect face
Upon the world below.

Her forehead is of amplest blond;
Her cheek like beryl stone;
Her eye unto the summer dew
The likest I have known.

Her lips of amber never part;
But what must be the smile
Upon her friend she could bestow
Were such her silver will!

And what a privilege to be
But the remotest star!
For certainly her way might pass
Beside your twinkling door.

Her bonnet is the firmament,
The universe her shoe,
The stars the trinkets at her belt,
Her dimities of blue.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“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

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain