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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

tags: inspirational, running

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“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
― Vincent van Gogh

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“Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: charlotte-bronte, fate, jane-eyre

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“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
― che guevara

tags: inspirational, love, motivation, passion

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#5

“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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#6

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: english-playwright

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#7

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: insanity, lunacy, lunatic

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#8

“If I thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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“Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: children, thoughts

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#10

“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.”
― George Washington

tags: america, citizens, immigrants, immigration, persecution, united-states, united-states-of-america, us, usa

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#11

“You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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#12

“Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of great stability. The harshness of the elements surrounding them causes them to seek another source of life. They will one day come to the place that even the greatest of windstorms cannot affect their ability to produce fruit.”
― John Bevere, The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense

tags: adversity, faith, persistence, roots

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#13

“I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#14

“You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in you. You are sick; because the best of feelings, the highest and the sweetest given to man, keeps far away from you. You are silly, because, suffer as you may, you will not beckon it to approach; nor will you stir one step to meet it where it waits you.”
― Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre

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“How can you call yourself a free man when your weakness has brought you to this? If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth, even as water seeks its level? If a man has within him the soul of a free man, will he not become respected and honored in his own city in spite of his misfortune?”
― George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon

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#16

“Life was cheap in war.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

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“But too often does youth think that age knows only the wisdom of days that are gone, and therefore profits not. But remember this; the sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.”
― George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon: With Study Guide

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“None of them were the men we knew. The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: bad-dreams, other-men, others-people-s-lives

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“People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

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#20

“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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#21

“Children hide from relational consequences more than the known logical consequences of their behavior.”
― Henry Cloud, Boundaries with Kids: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Children

tags: children, consequences, relationships

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#22

“So a person who is truly humble recognizes both his capabilities and his limitations.”
― Jo Berry, Proverbs for easier living

tags: humility, proverbs, wisdom

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#23

“Hatred stems from pride because vanity makes us detest and have contempt for anything or anyone who detracts from our importance.”
― Jo Berry, Proverbs for easier living

tags: hate, pride, proverbs

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#24

“The human creature is a social animal and will derive companionship of soul from the unlikeliest sources. It will be fed by even the hint of a smile or twinkle of the eye from a passerby where no more vital companionship food is to be had.”
― Michael R. Phillips, The Soldier's Lady

tags: introversion, little-things, psychology

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#25

“Be prepared to go the extra mile; there is less competition there.”
― Mac Anderson, 212 Service: The 10 Rules for Creating a Service Culture

tags: business, service, success

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#26

“What you don't know cannot be beaten out of you.”
― Darlene Deibler Rose, Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II

tags: innocence, knowledge, power

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“Already we were losing the taste for freedom, already we were finding these walls secure.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

tags: freedom, illusions, security

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“When you are a parent, you help create a child's future.”
― Henry Cloud, Boundaries with Kids: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Children

tags: future, influence, parenting

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“A boundary is a "property line" that defines a person; it defines where one person ends and someone else begins.”
― Henry Cloud, Boundaries with Kids: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Children

tags: boundaries, line-of-control, personhood

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#30

“Basically, children will mature to the level the parent structures them, and no higher.”
― John Townsend

tags: boundaries-with-kids

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