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    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
    tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love, sadness
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: beauty, music, sadness
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    Maya Angelou
    “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: 1997, annie-clark-tanner-lecture
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    Suzanne Collins
    “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: betrayal, katniss, peeta, relationships, the-hunger-games, trust
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Believing takes practice.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
    tags: belief
    671 likes

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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
    tags: integrity
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Experiment is the mother of knowledge.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
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  • #9
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “when I’m mad I don’t have room to be scared.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: masks
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    Doris Lessing
    “Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
    ― Doris Lessing
    tags: friendship, love, trust
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    Alison Croggon
    “We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”
    ― Alison Croggon
    tags: forgiveness, mistakes, trust
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    Mitch Albom
    “You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
    tags: trust
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    Stieg Larsson
    “Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: friendship, incredibly-true, mutuality, reciprocity, respect, trust
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: trust, truth
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
    ― Corrie ten Boom
    tags: faith, future, god, trust
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    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
    ― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
    tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth
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    June Ahern
    “How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.”
    ― June Ahern
    tags: life-lessons, psychology, spirituality, truth
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    John Green
    “Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Brian Jacques
    “Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right."

    —The law of Badger Lords”
    ― Brian Jacques, Lord Brocktree
    tags: chivalry
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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  • #25
    “Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgements which people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be cured of their ills only if they are persuaded to change their value judgements,”
    ― Donald Robertson, The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT): Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #27
    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history, humor, writing
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  • #29
    Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad
    “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: humor
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4085 likes



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