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  • #211
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    tags: memory
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  • #212
    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    ― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories
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  • #213
    Stephenie Meyer
    “Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
    tags: memory
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  • #214
    J.M. Barrie
    “Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: childhood-memory
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  • #215
    Ally Condie
    “Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
    tags: childhood, friendship, growing-up
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  • #216
    Jane Yolen
    “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
    ― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
    tags: childhood, disease, literature
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  • #217
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: childhood, growing-up, innocence
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  • #218
    Neil Gaiman
    “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: childhood, happiness
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  • #219
    Jim Henson
    “[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
    ― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
    tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
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  • #220
    Ethan Hawke
    “Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.”
    ― Ethan Hawke, The Hottest State
    tags: adulthood, childhood, dreams, ethan-hawke, follow-your-dreams, growing-up, judgement
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  • #221
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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  • #222
    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
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  • #223
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't Just

    Don't just learn, experience.
    Don't just read, absorb.
    Don't just change, transform.
    Don't just relate, advocate.
    Don't just promise, prove.
    Don't just criticize, encourage.
    Don't just think, ponder.
    Don't just take, give.
    Don't just see, feel.
    Don’t just dream, do.
    Don't just hear, listen.
    Don't just talk, act.
    Don't just tell, show.
    Don't just exist, live.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: act, action, change, criticize, doing, dream, dreams, encouragement, experience, feeling, giving, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, listening, living, optimism, optimistic, ponder, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, thinking, transform
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  • #224
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: dreams, future, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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  • #225
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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  • #226
    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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  • #227
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: creation, creative, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, worry
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  • #228
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: accept-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, keep-moving-forward, letting-go, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, love-yourself, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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  • #229
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: gratitude, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, kindness, life, life-and-living, life-quotes, living-life, mindful, mindfulness, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, truth
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  • #230
    Roy T. Bennett
    “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: change, focus, grow, growth, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leaders, leadership, life, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, stay-focused, step-out-of-comfort-zone, transform
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  • #231
    Roy T. Bennett
    “More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: authentic-living, being-positive, blessed, compassion, hate, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, judgment, less-more, life, life-purpose, life-quotes, living, love, mind, motivation, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, smile, smiles, spirituality, stress, stressed, worry, worrying
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  • #232
    Roy T. Bennett
    “You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: choices, choose, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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  • #233
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: goodness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, kindness, life, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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  • #234
    C. JoyBell C.
    “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: forgetting, hate, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-and-living, living, strength
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  • #235
    Deborah Reber
    “Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
    ― Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning
    tags: acceptance, letting-go, love, moving-on
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  • #236
    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: acceptance, friendship
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  • #237
    Lao Tzu
    “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity
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  • #238
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
    tags: acceptance, being-loved, love, marriage, relationships, truth
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  • #239
    Maya Angelou
    “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #240
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
    19798 likes



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