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    C.S. Lewis
    “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: art, books
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    Tosca Lee
    “I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary.”
    ― Tosca Lee, Havah: The Story of Eve
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”
    ― St. Augustine of Hippo
    tags: adventure, love, romance
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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    “That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.”
    ― Charles Spurgeon
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    “The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”
    ― Edward J. Stieglitz
    tags: inspirational
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    Tosca Lee
    “I stared. "But you're saying--"

    "Yes, Clay" - her mouth smoothed into a chilly smile - "Image of El, breath of God. In such an unworthy vessel. Something far more precious than diamonds, denied even to us but entrusted to a container of mud.”
    ― Tosca Lee, Demon
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    Robert Orben
    “Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
    ― Robert Orben
    tags: humour, politics, truth
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: gullibility
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity
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    Albert Einstein
    “The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: being-different, pioneer
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “In darkness God's truth shines most clear.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
    tags: christianity, truth
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    Aristotle
    “PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.”
    ― Aristotle
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    Aristotle
    “Memory is the scribe of the soul”
    ― Aristotle
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    Patricia Mulcahy
    “I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, "I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them.”
    ― Patricia Mulcahy, It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman
    tags: age, ailments, infirmities, positive-attitude, positive-thinking, survival, woman
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    Mandy Hale
    “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: evolution, evolve, friends, friendship, growth, letting-go, moving-on, positive-thinking, seasonal-friendships, seasons, the-single-woman
    200 likes

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    William Goldman
    “When I was your age, television was called books.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: book, fantasy, humour
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    Woody Allen
    “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
    ― Woody Allen
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    Max Beerbohm
    “Only the insane take themselves seriously.”
    ― Max Beerbohm
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    Maya Angelou
    “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: beauty, diversity, parents, strength, young-people
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    Oswald Chambers
    “Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.”
    ― oswald chambers
    tags: risk
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
    tags: faith, god
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    Stephen King
    “Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.”
    ― Stephen King, Danse Macabre
    tags: fantasy-fiction, writing
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: life
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: belief, experience, faith, judging-from-experience, religion, unseen
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  • #28
    Carl Sandburg
    “Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
    ― Carl Sandburg , The Complete Poems
    tags: dream
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous - Kim
    tags: fear, liars, self-deception
    408 likes

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    Mo Willems
    “My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.”
    ― Mo Willems
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