January 2012
55 posts
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“May the coming year make us all a little smarter, a little stonger and a little...”
– K Johnson
December 2011
37 posts
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“It was like the cornerstone of my childhood, the event upon which I built...”
– Jim True-Frost, Off the Map
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“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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“I didn’t know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It’s huge...”
– Jeanette Winterson
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“If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
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“You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
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“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever...”
– Ogden Nash
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“It’s a trip, you know? When you’re a kid, you-you see the life you...”
– Sanaa Lathan, Love & Basketball
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“If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet...”
– Steve Martin, Shopgirl
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“Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you’re young...”
– John Bingham
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“We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although...”
– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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“Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell...”
– Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere
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“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
– Richard Bach
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“Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need...”
– Martin Sheen, The American President
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“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is...”
– John Burroughs
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“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey
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“You also need to look back, not just at the people who are running behind you...”
– Joe Henderson
“Live for awhile in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning,...”
– Rilke, Viareggio, April 5, 1903, Letters to a Young Poet (via uponswallows)
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“You’ve been halfway living your life for too long. When it’s time to die, go...”
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
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“The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the...”
– Winston Churchill
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“I love him and therefore I want to protect him - even from me, if that makes...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
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“The banjo is such a happy instrument—you can’t play a sad song on...”
– Steve Martin
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“…whatever love you can get and give, whatever happiness you can filch or...”
– Larry David, Whatever Works
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“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person,...”
– Edith Wharton
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“Never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite...”
– Leonardo DiCaprio, The Beach
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“A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the...”
– Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy
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“Friendship is really matter of time. The time that it takes you to do a...”
– Amanda Bradley
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“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
– Willa Cather
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“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be...”
– Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
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“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an...”
– Alden Nowlan
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“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart...”
– Mark Twain
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“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via visceralconnection)
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“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic...”
– Siddhārtha Gautama
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“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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“If my whole world is going to crash down around me then I am going to make the...”
– John Green and David Levithan , Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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“They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You...”
– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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Beauty and the Beast
Beast: I want to do something for her... but what?
Cogsworth: Well, there's the usual things: flowers... chocolates... promises you don't intend to keep..
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“An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an...”
– Mitch Hedberg