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#1

“I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.”
― Jean Webster

tags: enjoy, goals, happiness, life, rat-race

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#2

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther

tags: inspiration, perseverance

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#3

“Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound disillusionment, gather many wounds; but cherish your scars for they are the proud emblems of a truly phenomenal life. The fearful, cautious, cynical and self-repressed do not live at all. And that is simply no way to be in this world.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

tags: bravery, cautious, courageous, cynical, disappointments, disillusionment, divine-living, emblem, fearful, fearless, fearlessness, fulfilling-life, life-and-living, life-experience, live-in-the-moment, live-your-life, opportunities, putting-yourself-out-there, risk-it, scars, self-repressed, take-action, take-chances, wholehearted, wounded

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#4

“Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: growth, love, wholehearted

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#5

“I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

tags: book, book-lovers, books, reading, reading-books

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#6

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: kindness

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#7

“Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal.”
― Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt

tags: life, love, marriage

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#8

“Earth's crammed with heaven...
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

tags: awareness, earth, heaven, life

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#9

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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#10

“I love my garden, and I love working in it. To potter with green growing things, watching each day to see the dear, new sprouts come up, is like taking a hand in creation, I think. Just now my garden is like faith - the substance of things hoped for.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, 10 Books

tags: anne-of-green-gables, gardening

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#11

“I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.”
― Anne Lamott

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#12

“The Way It Is

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn’t change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can’t get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.
You don’t ever let go of the thread.

~ William Stafford ~”
― William Stafford

tags: change, loss, poetry

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#13

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

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#14

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

tags: education, inspirational, life, perseverance

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#15

“God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. ”
― Eric Liddell

tags: sports

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#16

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: forgetting, forgiving, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-and-living, moving-on, people

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#17

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

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#18

“Just do the next right thing.

Then repeat indefinitely.”
― John Passaro, 6 Minutes Wrestling With Life

tags: adversity, gratitude-life-happiness-success, inspiration, motivation

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#19

“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

tags: illness, metaphor

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#20

“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils
Beside the lake beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
― William Wordsworth, I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud

tags: daffodils, nature, wordsworth

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#21

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

[Indian Summer]”
― John Howard Bryant

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#22

“In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
― Alfred Tennyson, Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson: Idylls of The King, The Lady Clare, Enoch Arden, In Memoriam, Becket, The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian, Queen Mary ... Lyrical, Suppressed Poems & More

tags: love, romance

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#23

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice Through The Looking Glass

tags: humor

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#24

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life

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#25

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

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