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Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
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L.M. Montgomery
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Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
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Louis L'Amour
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Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
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Louis L'Amour (Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume)
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Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.
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Shannon L. Alder
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After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
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Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1))
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Scars are just another kind of memory.
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M.L. Stedman (The Light Between Oceans)
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Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
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Madeleine L'Engle
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It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.
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L.R. Knost (Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages)
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That proves you are unusual," returned the Scarecrow; "and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.
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L. Frank Baum (The Land of Oz (Russian Edition))
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Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.
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Shannon L. Alder
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Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.
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Shannon L. Alder
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The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.
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Shannon L. Alder
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Il n'y a de rΓ©alitΓ© que dans l'action.
(There is no reality except in action.)
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Jean-Paul Sartre (Existentialism is a Humanism)
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I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5))
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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
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Madeleine L'Engle (The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, #2))
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E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.
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Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird)
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No. No!β he says.
βI . . .β He looks wildly around the room. For inspiration? For divine intervention? I donβt know.
βYou canβt go. Ana, I love you!β
βI love you, too, Christian, itβs justββ
βNo . . . no!β he says in desperation and puts both hands on his head. βChristian . . .β
βNo,β he breathes, his eyes wide with panic, and suddenly he drops to his knees in front of me, head bowed, long-fingered hands spread out on his thighs. He takes a deep breath and doesnβt move. What?
βChristian, what are you doing?β
He continues to stare down, not looking at me.
βChristian! What are you doing?β
My voice is high-pitched. He doesnβt move.
βChristian, look at me!β I command in panic. His head sweeps up without hesitation, and he regards me passively with his cool gray gazeβheβs almost serene . . . expectant.
Holy Fuck . . . Christian. The submissive.
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E.L. James (Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2))
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The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.
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Shannon L. Alder
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Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
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Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable
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Gary L. Francione
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I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
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Gary L. Francione
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In definitiv, cu cat vei ridica un zid mai inalt in jurul tau cu atat va fi mai bun cel care-l va sari.
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Tudor ChirilΔ (ExerciΕ£ii de echilibru)
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Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.
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L.J. Smith (The Forbidden Game (Forbidden Game, #1-3))
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Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.
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Wayne L. Misner
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The earth will never be the same again
Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif
As distant stars participate in the pain.
A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf,
A dolphin death, O this particular loss
A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried
If this small one was tossed away as dross,
The very galaxies would have lied.
How shall we sing our love's song now
In this strange land where all are born to die?
Each tree and leaf and star show how
The universe is part of this one cry,
Every life is noted and is cherished,
and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.
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Madeleine L'Engle (A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4))
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Perhaps ...
To R.A.L.
Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue,
And feel one more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of you.
Perhaps the golden meadows at my feet,
Will make the sunny hours of spring seem gay,
And I shall find the white May-blossoms sweet,
Though You have passed away.
Perhaps the summer woods will shimmer bright,
And crimson roses once again be fair,
And autumn harvest fields a rich delight,
Although You are not there.
But though kind Time may many joys renew,
There is one greatest joy I shall not know
Again, because my heart for loss of You
Was broken, long ago.
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Vera Brittain (Testament of Youth)
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I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to light the way through the darkness for others.
I write to be seen and heard.
I write to be near those I love.
I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper.
I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.
I write past the embarrassment of exposure.
I write because hypocrisy doesnβt need answers, rather it needs questions to heal.
I write myself out of nightmares.
I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings.
I write to remember.
I write knowing conversations donβt always take place.
I write because speaking canβt be reread.
I write to sooth a mind that races.
I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand.
I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide.
I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long.
I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be.
I write to provide a legacy.
I write to make sense out of senselessness.
I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding.
I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers.
I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time.
I write because God loves stories.
I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.
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Shannon L. Alder