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“LEARN TO LOVE YOUR failures, Marcus, because it is your failures that will make you who you are. It is your failures that will give meaning to your victories.”
― Joël Dicker, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

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“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

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“life generally doesn’t have any meaning—unless you strive, every God-given day, to provide it with some.”
― Joël Dicker, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

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“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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A group for reading along and discussing the books featured on the Overdue Podcast. Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. ...more

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Hey Y’all, We’ve been reading together for awhile and we don’t know about you, but we’re ready to hear your thoughts and opinions. This group is a pl ...more