It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
John Waters
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John Waters
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Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
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Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.
Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
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Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
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If you quit on the process, you are quitting on the result.
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
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― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
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A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.
Andre Dubus, Meditations from a Movable Chair
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Andre Dubus, Meditations from a Movable Chair
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Both reading and writing are experiences – lifelong – in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought to mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.
Eudora Welty
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Eudora Welty
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Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
-Brian Tracy
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-Brian Tracy
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People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.
–Zig Ziglar
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–Zig Ziglar
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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
–Aristotle
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–Aristotle
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The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.
–Jesse Owens
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–Jesse Owens
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
—Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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—Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
Veronica Roth.
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Veronica Roth.
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Hey there, Mr. Grumpy Gills. When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.
—Dory, Finding Nemo
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—Dory, Finding Nemo
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