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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light,...

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The dogs left with us and we walked. I sobbed the whole way home, still heartbroken. My mom had no t...

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

He wished to please everybody," Franklin later said of Keith, "and having little to give, he gave ex...

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Walter IsaacsonBenjamin Franklin: An American Life

If you really want things to change, you have to get involved. Little strokes fell big oaks, you kno...

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Wendelin Van DraanenSammy Keyes And the Dead Giveaway

It's to have people see her instead of her condition. That's all that anybody with a disability want...

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I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more.

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Willy RussellShirley Valentine

All human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'wait' and 'hope'".

Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by cou...

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Face it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may...

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Anne TylerBack When We Were Grownups

The greater a man's - or boy's - ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the ...

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Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go th...

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what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you...

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God put us on this carnival ride, We close our eyes not knowing were it will take us next

If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes wi...

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On game days, I could be in the worst mood imagiable-a really bad mood. But sometimes, I'd get a cal...

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But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try...

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You need to claim the driver's seat," Cash said. "Never take a backseat in your own life! You gotta ...

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Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has...

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God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness ...

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To be alive──is Power.

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say w...

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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the sur...

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He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was...

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What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know...

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Short cuts make long delays.

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always t...

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No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

Tom's theory of why human beings had yet to receive any message from extraterrestrial intelligences ...

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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to h...

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never say never see what is possible if you never give up

Never Say Never if you know you can do what you love don't give up.

That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.

Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow."You don't need them. You are learning something ever...

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L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the wor...

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To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that y...

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He who does not value life does not deserve it.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.

Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is...

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Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp

The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student ...

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Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?"-Morrie

None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such th...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically...

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You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colo...

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Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one....

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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a le...

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

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Ralph Waldo EmersonSelected Works: Essays

The New testament commanded to love each other, pray for each other, encourage each other, admonish ...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Thank goodness we don'y meet many people like [Miss Trunchbull] in this world, although they do exis...

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About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About pla...

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Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

There's two wolves battling us all right now... One's good, the other one is evil. If you're wonderi...

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It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it should...

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Just then his state of being was so curious that he was compelled , himself, to see it -- eager, gri...

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Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees