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Eve’s Quotes

“You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius”
― Barbara Cooney

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“It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

tags: relationships

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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns

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“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine Albright

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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Gardener's Group — 257 members — last activity Jun 17, 2023 08:18AM
Folks in your life just don't understand why you spend countless hours in your garden, in nurseries seeking out new goodies to take home and combing t ...more

Children's Books — 7140 members — last activity 7 hours, 20 min ago
From picture-books to juvenile fiction, award-winners to overlooked gems, the world of children's literature provides an endless supply of fabulous bo ...more

UK Book Club — 7053 members — last activity 6 hours, 16 min ago
This is a book group for Goodreads users in the UK, but members from other countries are welcome too so long as all posts are made in English. Please ...more

Around the World in 80 Books — 32040 members — last activity 4 hours, 9 min ago
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more

American UK Ladies Book Club — 13 members — last activity Jan 23, 2012 11:54AM
A book club for American Expat women who live, or have lived, in the UK.

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