December 2011
66 posts
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“It could be Paris. It could be Rio de Janeiro. It could be anywhere but home:...”
– Bill Buford, Introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2010
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“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are...”
– Thomas Merton
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“No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.”
– J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals
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“Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you...”
– E.L. Konigsburg
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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you...”
– Haruki Murakami (Norweigan Wood)
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“Experience: the most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my god do you learn.”
– C.S. Lewis
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“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And...”
– Maya Angelou
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“She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially,...”
– J.K. Rowling
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“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes...”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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“Whether you like it or not, read and pray daily. It is for your life; there is...”
– John Wesley
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“This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“We’re making a point to give a shit, because in this world, it’s just crazy...”
– Patrick Stickles
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“Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is...”
– Rumi
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“Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do...”
– Mignon McLaughlin
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“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“I’m not sure if I can write a love poem while it’s still just a prospect...”
– Simone Stolzoff
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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich
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“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was...”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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“I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward...”
– Rumi
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“I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our...”
– William P. Young, The Shack
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is...”
– Khalil Gibran
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“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
– Denis Diderot
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“I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of...”
– Anne Fadiman in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I am going is...”
– Rosalia de Castro
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“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not...”
– Alice Hoffman
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“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
– MaryAnne Radmacher-Hershey
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“If you tremble indignation at every injustice you are a comrade of mine”
– Che Guevara
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“And she finds it difficult to believe — that a person would love her even...”
– Margaret Atwood
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“Love is a river. Drink from it.”
– Rumi
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“The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly...”
– Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
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“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air,
Me and you.”
– Sylvia Plath
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“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing...”
– The Zahir by Paulo Coelho
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“The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day...”
– Mark Twain
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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters...”
– Khalil Gibran
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“You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last...”
– John Keats
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“He introduced himself to us
out of kindness: how else
could we have known him?...”
– Hakim Sanai
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“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.”
– Edgar Cayce
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“While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a...”
– H. G. Wells
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“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will...”
– Paulo Coelho
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“He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it’s not about his face,...”
– Melina Marchetta
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“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they...”
– Anais Nin
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“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of...”
– Carl Sagan
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“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have...”
– Henry Drummond
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“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
– Shelby Foote
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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
– Carl Sagan
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“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds – but I think of...”
– Salvador Plascencia
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“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anais Nin
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“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke