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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Suzy Davies
    “Her grandmother had told her that Moonwishes were magic”
    ― Suzy Davies, Luna The Moon Pig: The Pig Who Hid
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    Veronica Roth
    “You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It's easier that way. But that isn't how people work.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
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    Erica Bauermeister
    “Sometimes, niña, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.”
    ― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients
    tags: inspirational
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    Thomas Szasz
    “Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
    ― Thomas Szasz
    tags: humor, inspirational
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  • #6
    “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."
    "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: maia, patience, simon, wit
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    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
    tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure
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  • #9
    Kate Morton
    “A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.”
    ― Kate Morton , The Forgotten Garden
    tags: dependence
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Everybody can be great; you only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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  • #14
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: inspirational-ship-storms
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    Jack Prelutsky
    “You’re nasty and you’re loud,
    you’re mean enough for two,
    If I could be a cloud,
    I’d rain all day on you.”
    ― Jack Prelutsky
    tags: cloud, funny, kids, mean
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  • #17
    Sophocles
    “One word
    Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
    That word is love.”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: love, pain
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  • #18
    “Losing one world to gain a whole universe is enlightenment.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: enlightenment-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, spiritual-quotations, spiritual-quotes, spirituality-quotes, universe-quotations, universe-quotes, world-quotes
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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    Mary Martinez
    “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." Marcus Aelius Aurelius”
    ― Mary Martinez, Four Sisters
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    Germany Kent
    “It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
    ― Germany Kent
    tags: abundant-thinking, acceptance-of-oneself, acceptance-quotes, accepting-yourself, affirmation, affirmation-and-attitude, attitude-of-gratitude, award-winning-authors, be-grateful-for-being-alive, be-grateful-for-what-you-have, be-grateful-for-your-blessings, be-grateful-for-your-life, be-grateful-in-life, be-grateful-with-your-life, be-thankful, be-thankful-for-each-day, be-thankful-for-what-you-have, be-thankful-to-be-alive, be-you, be-yourself, be-yourself-inspirational, be-yourself-original, be-yourself-quotes, begin-to-take-note, best-selling-authors, body-mind-spirit, content, contentment, contentment-and-attitude, contentment-quotes, correct-path, correct-your-errors, correct-your-mistakes, enough, enough-said, fact, facts-of-life, facts-wisdom, find-yourself, finding-oneself, finding-your-way, finding-yourself, food-for-thought, fulfillment, funny-thing-about-life, germany-kent, germany-kent-quote, germany-kent-quotes, grateful-attitude, grateful-heart, grateful-outlook, grateful-person, grateful-quotes, grateful-soul, grateful-thinking, gratefulness, gratefulness-quotes, gratitude, gratitude-happiness-inner-peace, gratitude-is-a-choice, gratitude-life-happiness-success, gratitude-mind, gratitude-quotes, gratitude-works, gratitudes, happiness, having-enough, heal, healing-the-past, healthy-habits, healthy-lifestyle, healthy-living, hope-guru, inner-peace, keys-to-success, knowing-oneself, knowledge-wisdom, life, life-and-living, life-and-living-insight, life-and-living-life-philosophy, life-changing, life-choices, life-lessons, life-lessons-quotes, life-philosophy, life-quotes, life-quotes-and-sayings, love-your-life, love-yourself, love-yourself-deeply, love-yourself-first, love-yourself-quote, love-yourself-quotes, love-yourself-unconditionally, mentality, mind-body-soul, mind-body-spirit, mind-body-spirit-authors, mindfulness, mindset, mindset-change, mindset-positive, motivate, motivational-guru, motivational-inspirational, motivational-speaker, motivational-speakers, not-enough, personal-development, personal-growth, perspective, point-taken, positive-attitude, positive-attitude-quotes, positive-energy, positive-living, positive-thinking, positivity, power-of-positive-thinking, power-of-positivity, powerful, real-talk, reality, reality-of-life, reality-of-things, reality-quotes, resilience, respect, respect-quotes, respect-yourself, respecting-yourself, self-help-authors, success, success-self-improvement, success-tips, successful-people, take-note, thankful, thankful-attitude, the-hope-guru, thinking, thinking-for-change, thinking-process, thinking-quotes, transformation, transformation-quotes, transformational, transformational-authors, transformational-speakers, trust-yourself, truth, truth-of-life, truth-quotes-honesty-quotes, truths, wise-sayings-inspiration, wise-words, wise-words-inner-strength, word-to-the-wise
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    “Be grateful. You only have this one life and it will be as beautiful as you make it”
    ― Independent Zen
    tags: beautiful, grateful, independent-zen, life
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    Jenny Hubbard
    “You have to stop and freeze the moment," he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity.”
    ― Jenny Hubbard, Paper Covers Rock
    tags: writing, writing-process
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
    tags: death, writing
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    Frances Mayes
    “You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun–who knows.

    I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown of book writing.”
    ― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
    tags: books, writing
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    Rae Armantrout
    “A sense of mission lost
    in ink's
    jagged outcrops.

    I was trying to tell myself
    what I must have known
    before

    in a form
    I wouldn't recognize at first.”
    ― Rae Armantrout, Next Life
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  • #28
    “What I have to say about meditation boils down to this: it never hurts. It always helps. It costs nothing, and it improves everything.”
    ― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
    ― Murakami, Haruki
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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