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“Maybe the world isn’t full of signs so much as it’s full of people trying to use whatever evidence they can find to convince themselves of what they hope to be true.”
JENNIFER E. SMITH, HELLO, GOODBYE, AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN |
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“I’ve wasted a lot of time in my life. I’ve thought too much about what people will say or what they’re gonna think. And sometimes it’s over silly things like going to the grocery store or going to the post office. But there have been times when I really stopped myself from doing something special. All because I was scared someone might look at me and decide I wasn’t good enough. But you don’t have to bother with that nonsense. I wasted all that time so you don’t have to.”
JULIE MURPHY, DUMPLIN’ |
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“People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you’re succeeding. People do not get scared when you’re failing. It calms them. But when you’re winning, it makes them feel like they’re losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should’ve tried to do something too, but now it’s too late. And since they didn’t, they want to stop you. You can’t let them.”
MINDY KALING, WHY NOT ME? |
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“We think we know our friends, our lovers, but really all we know is pieces of them. Fragments we learn by watching, sharing time and place, listening to their stories; over the years there are more and more of these fragments and we can draw lines between them, fill them with what we imagine is truth. But of course we only know what they show us; lines we think jig here may actually curl somewhere else altogether. The lines we draw aren’t always real, and often have more to do with our own selves.”
ELIZABETH JOY ARNOLD, THE BOOK OF SECRETS |
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“Because pretending to be happy is almost like being happy. Until you remember that you’re only pretending. Then you’re sad. Really sad. Because wearing a mask every day of your life is the hardest thing to do. And after a while, you get a little scared because the mask becomes you.”
BRITTAINY C. CHERRY, LOVING MR. DANIELS |
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“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that–warm things, kind things, sweet things–help and comfort and laughter–and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, A LITTLE PRINCESS |
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“Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.”
PATRICK NESS, THE REST OF US JUST LIVE HERE |
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“Because now people use the phrase OCD to describe minor personality quirks. “Oooh, I like my pens in a line, I’m so OCD.” NO YOU’RE FUCKING NOT.
“Oh my God, I was so nervous about that presentation, I literally had a panic attack.” NO YOU FUCKING DIDN’T. “I’m so hormonal today. I just feel totally bipolar.” SHUT UP, YOU IGNORANT BUMFACE.”
HOLLY BOURNE, AM I NORMAL YET? |
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“we are the boat
returning to dock
we are the footprints
on the northern trail
we are the iron
coloring the soil
we cannot
be erased.”
REMI KANAZI, BEFORE THE NEXT BOMB DROPS: RISING UP FROM BROOKLYN TO PALESTINE |
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“I find myself looking into people’s eyes more than I ever did before. And I realize, that’s where we stop being a certain gender or color. Just look right into the center of the eye.”
DAVID LEVITHAN, ANOTHER DAY |
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“Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.”
JACQUELINE WOODSON, BROWN GIRL DREAMING |
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The Wit & Wisdom - literary greats
Edited by adila39 at 28-11-2018 01:03 PM
A melting pot of quotes from writers that changed the world dedicated to everyone who loves good vibes in life. Aha...lots of love.
#It is no matter what you teach them (children) first, any more than what leg shall put into your breeches first.
Samuel Johnson in Boswells life of Samuel. |
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It felt as if some woman had come out nowhere saying she was my daughter's mother.
JK Rowling on being falsely accused of plagiarism in The Times 20 sept 2002. |
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oh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
Aphra Behn, The emperor of the moon. 1687 |
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Ay me!
for aught that ever I could read
could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.
william Shakespeare, A mid summer Nights dream 1595 |
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.’
— Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems |
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“It’s always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.”
KIERA CASS, THE SELECTION |
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“We carry our families like anchors, rooting us in storms, making sure we never drift from where and who we are. We carry our families within us the way we carry our breath underwater, keeping us afloat, keeping us alive.”
ERIKA SWYLER, THE BOOK OF SPECULATION: A NOVEL |
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“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit, unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?”
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, ERAGON |
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“To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.”
TWAN ENG TAN, THE GIFT OF RAIN |
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Post time 26-11-2018 02:33 AM
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