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Lessie’s Quotes

“My hope and consolation are found in understanding that regardless of the color of skin, we all have one common denominator: we are all human beings.”
― Octavia Yvonne Webb

tags: compassion, empathy, hope, humanity, racial-healing, social-justice-reads, spiritual-memoir, unity

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“ She'd been freed from weakness by summoning the courage and strength to live and to love. She felt the thrill of freedom, freedom to do as she wished and as she was driven.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

tags: historicalfiction, hopefulfiction, loveaftertrauma, readerswhofeeldeeply, resilience, secondchances, traumaandhealing

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“Theo, always remember that if you’ve learned something useful and haven’t put it into practice, it’s not ‘knowledge,’ it’s just ‘information.’ Information becomes knowledge only when it finds an application in real life. That is very important to remember.”
― Alexander Morpheigh

tags: alexandermorpheigh, appliedwisdom, bookquotes, innerwork, lifelonglearning, mindfulreading, philosophicalfiction, thepythagorean

156 likes

“When those we care about are weakest, that’s when we must be strong for them.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, adventure, detective, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, noir-mystery, thriller

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“Just the class division of society creates two different, two parallel worlds/antipodes in this very society. And this means yet two polar models of behavior in the political life of the society—the democracy of the rich class is in fact a dictatorship for the poor one! In other words, the state is not of people and democracy is not for all.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face