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  • #1
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #2
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.”
    Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

  • #3
    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    Helen Keller

  • #4
    Helen Keller
    “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
    Helen Keller

  • #5
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #6
    Charlotte Brontë
    “It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”
    Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • #7
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”
    Charlotte Bronte

  • #8
    Charlotte Brontë
    “To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.”
    Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • #9
    John Steinbeck
    “We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #10
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #11
    Michael Shaara
    “There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.”
    Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

  • #12
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #13
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #14
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #17
    “In riding a horse, we borrow freedom”
    Helen Thompson

  • #18
    Alice Walker
    “Horses make a landscape look beautiful.”
    Alice Walker

  • #19
    Milan Kundera
    “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
    Milan Kundera

  • #20
    Josh Billings
    “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
    Josh Billings

  • #21
    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

  • #22
    John Wayne
    “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
    John Wayne

  • #23
    John Wayne
    “Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”
    John Wayne

  • #24
    John Wayne
    “I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble. ”
    John Wayne

  • #25
    “Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.”
    Taylor Swift

  • #26
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #27
    John Wayne
    “I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”
    John Wayne "The Shootist"

  • #28
    Kellie Elmore
    “Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn’t make you country; Like puttin’ on a ball gown & glass heels won’t make me Cinderella.”
    Kellie Elmore

  • #29
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”
    Barbara Kingsolver

  • #30
    Shauna Niequist
    “I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”
    Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way



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