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Halfway to You

by Jennifer Gold (Goodreads Author)

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The Moonflowers

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Holly’s Quotes

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams, future, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

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“The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

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“Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.”
― Annie Dillard

tags: books, reading

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“Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer

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