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#1

“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
― Aaron Lauritsen

tags: 100-days-drive, 100daysdrive, acceptance, accomplish, adventure, ambition, author, awakening, be-happy, be-proud, believe, bestrong, bestseller, bohemian, break-barriers, carma, chances, change, chase-dreams, cherish, coming-of-age, compassion, competition, confidence, conquer, conquer-fear, content, control-your-life, courage, crossroads, destiny, determination, dig-deep, don-t-give-up, don-t-worry-be-happy, dont-quit, dream-big, dreamer, empower, energy, enjoy-life, explore, faith, fearless, find-yourself, follow-your-dreams, follow-your-heart, follow-your-own-path, forgive, free, freedom, fresh-start, goal-setting, goals, goals-in-life, good-soul, gratitude, happiness, heal, high-road, hope, humanity, humility, inner-beauty, inner-strength, inspiration, journey, joy, judgement, laugh, learn, liberate, liberating, life, life-lessons, light, limitless, live-life-quotes, love-thy-neighbor, love-thyself, love-yourself, luck, memoir, never-quit, no-regrets, nomad, one-life, open-road, opportunity, parenthood, perspective, positive-thinking, power, pride, push-limits, quitting-lasts-forever, quote-of-the-day, quotes, reflections, resiliency, respect, risk-taking, road-trip, satisfaction, service-to-others, smile, soar, soul-food, spirituality, start-all-over, stay-the-course, staystrong, strength, struggle, success, teamwork, thick-skin, think-outside-the-box, travel, truth, values, wander, wanderlust, wateroffaducksback, writer

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#2

“Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.”
― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

tags: 100-days-drive, 100daysdrive, acceptance, accomplish, adventure, ambition, author, awakening, be-happy, be-proud, believe, bestrong, bestseller, bohemian, break-barriers, carma, chances, change, chase-dreams, cherish, coming-of-age, compassion, competition, confidence, conquer, conquer-fear, content, control-your-life, courage, crossroads, destiny, determination, dig-deep, don-t-give-up, don-t-judge, don-t-worry-be-happy, dream-big, dreamer, empower, energy, enjoy-life, explore, faith, fearless, find-yourself, follow-your-dreams, follow-your-heart, follow-your-own-path, forgive, free, freedom, fresh-start, goal-setting, goals, goals-in-life, good-soul, gratitude, happiness, heal, high-road, hope, humanity, humility, inner-beauty, inner-strength, inspiration, journey, joy, judgement, laugh, learn, liberate, liberating, life, life-lessons, light, limitless, live-life-quotes, love-thy-neighbor, love-thyself, love-yourself, luck, memoir, never-quit, no-regrets, nomad, one-life, open-road, opportunity, parenthood, perspective, positive-thinking, power, pride, push-limits, quote-of-the-day, quotes, reflections, resiliency, respect, risk-taking, road-trip, satisfaction, service-to-others, smile, soar, soul-food, spirituality, start-all-over, staystrong, strength, struggle, success, teamwork, thick-skin, think-outside-the-box, travel, truth, values, walk-a-mile, wander, wanderlust, wateroffaducksback, writer

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#3

“Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.”
― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

tags: 100-days-drive, 100daysdrive, acceptance, accomplish, ambition, author, awakening, be-happy, be-proud, believe, bestseller, break-barriers, carmaker, chances, change, chase-dreams, cherish, compassion, competition, confidence, conquer, conquer-fear, content, control-you-life, courage, crossroads, destiny, determination, dig-deep, don-t-give-up, don-t-worry-be-happy, dream-big, dreamer, empower, energy, explore, faith, fearless, find-yourself, follow-your-dreams, follow-your-heart, follow-your-own-path, forgive, freedom, fresh-start, goal-setting, goals, goals-in-life, good-soul, happiness, hope, humanity, humility, inner-beauty, inner-strength, inspiration, journey, joy, judgement, liberate, liberating, life, life-lessons, light, live-life-quotes, love-thy-neighbor, love-thyself, love-yourself, luck, memoir, never-quit, no-regrets, nomad, one-life, opportunity, parenthood, perspective, positive-thinking, power, pride, push-limits, reflections, resiliency, respect, risk-taking, road-trip, satisfaction, service-to-others, soar, soul-food, spirituality, start-all-over, strength, struggle, success, thick-skin, think-outside-the-box, travel, values, wander, wanderlust, writer

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#4

“She was beautiful. Not despite her so-called flaws but because of them—those scrapes and life experiences that made her body like no other woman’s. The beauty that wasn’t ephemeral or society-dictated but the real beauty that cut across generations, across all cultures, from the beginning of humankind. The beauty that was painted in Paleolithic caves and carved in ancient Venus statuettes, those wonderful figurines of all shapes and sizes, individualized and gorgeous precisely because of that individuality. What cavemen had known, modern men had forgotten, and sadly, modern women too.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: bbw, beautiful-face, i-can-only-be-me, inclusive, its-okay-to-be-different, kind-soul, no-one-is-perfect, stay-beautiful, stay-the-way-you-are, you-are-unique

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#5

“She was part of a group that helped tilt the world just a tiny bit the right way. Yes, she, one tiny person, was part of it. Hardly noticeable, true, but “hardly” was more than nothing. “Hardly” made all the difference in the world in how she saw herself.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: enlighten-the-world, feeling-important, great-work, life-matters, make-the-world-a-better-place, make-your-mark-quotes, meaningful-work, no-limits, stand-tall, start-small

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#6

“This has been her life for the past fifty years, this striving to help save the world a little bit, to push it just a bit farther into the right. This action was the only thing that sustained her during the hard times [when] only her purposeful life propped her up from total collapse, and she thought how strange that she had taught the morality play Everyman all those years but didn’t fully understand its central lesson or how true it was: We are our good deeds, and they alone will come with us into the afterlife.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: clear-conscience, continuous-struggle, faded, fading-away, life-is-a-test, lose-your-mind, obstacles-make-you-stronger, overcoming-depression, pick-yourself-up, storms-of-life-quotes

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#7

“I am merely at the midway point in the novel of my own life. On around page 250 of a 500-page tale and, given future medical advances, maybe even 200. There’s no reason why the next 250, 300, or even 350 pages will not be far more exciting than the first half.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: age-is-just-a-number, be-what-you-want-to-be, better-days-ahead, life-stages, make-each-day-count, make-every-moment-count, no-turning-back, patience-and-timing, perception-of-life, seize-the-moment

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#8

“I’m in love, aren’t I? She thought she knew the answer by how much she wanted to be there. Wouldn’t have traded being there for any other location in the world. Wouldn’t have traded it for all the exotic destinations flaunted in Pan Am travel brochures. Not Tahiti, not Monte Carlo, not Hong Kong. No, she wanted to be here, in this ramshackle market not a ten-minute drive from her humdrum house and life. Except it wasn’t a humdrum life anymore, was it? No, I’m at the most exciting place on Earth. The center of the world. The Roman Forum during the reign of Augustus Caesar.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: abundance-of-love, all-i-want-is-you, boyfriend-and-girlfriend, deep-in-my-heart, love-everything, loving-heart, manifesting-love, realization-of-love, steal-your-heart, sublime-love

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#9

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: katniss, rue, song

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#10

“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: the-hunger-games

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#11

“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: humor, hunger-games, katniss, mellark, peeta, romance

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#12

“And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: hunger-games, katniss-everdeen, love, peeta-mellark, smile, suzanne-collins

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#13

“If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my belt, freeing it. Peeta sees it and his hand clamps on my wrist. "No, I won't let you." "Trust me," I whisper. He holds my gaze for a long moment then lets go. I loosen the top of the pouch and pour a few spoonfuls of berries into his palm. Then I fill my own. "On the count of three?" Peeta leans down and kisses me once, very gently. "The count of three," he says. We stand, our backs pressed together, our empty hands locked tight. "Hold them out. I want everyone to see," he says. I spread out my fingers, and the dark berries glisten in the sun. I give Peeta's hand one last squeeze as a signal, as a good-bye, and we begin counting. "One." Maybe I'm wrong. "Two." Maybe they don't care if we both die. "Three!" It's too late to change my mind. I lift my hand to my mouth taking one last look at the world. The berries have just passed my lips when the trumpets begin to blare. The frantic voice of Claudius Templesmith shouts above them. "Stop! Stop! Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you - the tributes of District 12!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: hunger-games

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#14

“Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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#15

“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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#16

“We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

tags: fight, fighting-for-love, freedom, love

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#17

“You don't run from the people who need you. You fight for them. You fight beside them. No matter the cost. No matter the risk.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

tags: fighting-for-love

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#18

“To fight against these falsehoods, though, one needed to be able to see past the present-day and very male-oriented distortion lens to the underlying truth. Beyond question, Molly Valle could do this. A woman whose surface appearance, eyeglasses and conservative clothes, fit the schoolmarm stereotype to a T. Yet she had sloughed off that exterior and society’s restrictions as effortlessly as she had her clothes, and during their lovemaking, she had not only kept up with him but often passed ahead of him. With other women, he had seen the embers of passion but never the flame. Tonight, he had witnessed the bonfire.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: appearances-are-deceiving, don-t-judge-a-book-by-its-cover, expectations-vs-reality, force-to-be-reckoned-with, gender-norms, insatiable, looking-down-on-others, love-fever, sexual-health

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#19

“Except those images weren’t exact captures of reality. No, the Camera Eye was also suffused with what photographers called the Golden Hour—the gilt-tinted hour following sunrise and preceding sunset, when the world was awash with russet rays and even the meanest streets were aglow as if in an Arthurian legend. Every moment spent with John was like that, reality beyond reality. Richer, realer, rawer than reality. These were the moments she remembered most.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: cameras, golden-hour, grass-is-greener, happy-memories, memorable-moments, memories-of-love, morning-sun, sunrise-quotes, sunset-quotes

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#20

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: doomed, inevitable, love, oblivion, pleasure, simple

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#21

“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: infinity

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#22

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: augustus-waters, hazel, heartbreak, privilege

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#23

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#24

“May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.

I smiled. "Sure."

"Tomorrow?" he asked.

"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager.

"Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow." I rolled my eyes. "I'm serious," he said.

"You don't even know me," I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. "How about I call you when I finish this?"

"But you don't even have my phone number," he said.

"I strongly suspect you wrote it in this book."

He broke out into that goofy smile. "And you say we don't know each other.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#25

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: amsterdam, freedom, sin

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#26

“Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#27

“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: john-green, the-fault-in-our-stars

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#28

“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#29

“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: grief, loss, memory

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#30

“Just be careful. Learn your lessons well, and always follow your instincts.”
― Danielle Steel, Spy

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