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#1

“When we think our countless ideas are great, God knows His ideas are best when we wait.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

tags: bible, book-of-god, church, glory, hope, illustrations, joy, rhyming, truth, young-readers

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#2

“Then, in an unusual moment, she grew emotional, which left little doubt about the level of profound respect and admiration Merkel had for her American colleague:
‘So eight years are coming to a close. This is the last visit of (President) Barack Obama to our country…I am very glad that he chose Germany as one of the stopovers on this trip…Thank you for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship. So let me again pay tribute to what we’ve been able to achieve, to what we discussed, to what we were able to bring about in difficult hours.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: calculation, european-history, goals, history, literary, marriage, personal-goals, relationships, speeches, women-in-politics

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#3

“where there's a Clark, there's a Lewis”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

tags: fiction

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#4

“Most people don’t know how to lose weight. They try different diets with good intentions and hope. They fail. They try again and fail. Then they often give up and return to eating for satisfaction and fulfillment.

Why have so many failed? They’ve tried cutting out sweets. That helps, but it’s only part of the cause of their weight gain. They’ve tried counting calories. That’s burdensome and, again, only part of the story. They’ve failed because no one has ever told them, in clear, everyday terms, how we all gain and lose weight.”
― Rick Mystrom

tags: body, control, diabetes, fats, free-foods, health, live-life, live-longer, live-well, wellbeing

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#5

“The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: war

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#6

“From the antique Persian rugs covering the gleaming hardwood floors to the molded tin ceilings and ornate chandeliers, the house was a showstopper. Throughout its long life, no one had allowed this home to fall into disrepair. Every detail of the wainscoting, every pocket door, every window, floor tile, and bathtub was original to the house.”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

tags: cozy-mystery, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance, sweet-romance

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#7

“We are God’s art. We are God’s poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: change, courage, dig-deep, don-t-judge, explore, faith, find-yourself, goal-setting, laugh, learn

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#8

“She put all of her weight against the sill of the balcony, her lovesick heart ready and willing to join the man she loved. She closed her eyes and pushed herself forward. From three stories high, she plummeted to the earth. Before hitting the ground, she swore she saw him, racing down from the heavens and lifting her up towards God’s domain where lovers never ceased to rule.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: collection, drama, fun, intrigue, perspectives, revenge, scary, short-stories, unique, varied

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#9

“Where’s everybody? I thought you had started production.” “They’ve got a day off, but don’t worry you’ll see the machinery is here.” But Brown was worried. As they entered the canteen, the lights came on automatically. There was nobody there. “What’s going…...” but he never finished the sentence. Brown felt a sharp pain on the side of his head and everything went black.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, action-thriller-fiction, drama, fiction, intrigue, mystery, suspense, thriller

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#10

“Giving birth does not make you a mother. Being there daily in good times and bad to provide, care, comfort, teach, sing, feed, clothe, encourage, discipline, clean, hug, pray, listen, cry, experience, protect, kiss, read, advocate, bandage, educate, coach, cheer, laugh, play and love unconditionally...well, that's a mother.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: develop, encourgement, growth, inspire, laugh, love, oach, positive

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#11

“Thatched huts of mud sit humped in rows. Between the rows, a stagnant stream of sewage stews like thick soup bubbling in the clotted heat. Mosquitoes swarm. Garbage rots. Parvati gathers her sari about her and steps as lightly as she can down this gutter of filth. The boy stops outside one of the huts. Parvati and Sunil push aside the sacking that is over the doorway, stoop and step down onto a mud floor. Inside, there is no window, no light and no air. Only heat. Parvati puts her hand to her long elegant throat. Above her, one end of the roof is sagging as if about to collapse.
‘Bustee, very good,’ says the boy smiling.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

tags: cultural, cultural-heritage, heritage, historical-fiction, history, insight, love, multi-layered

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#12

“Every human being has a personal dream of life, and that dream is completely different from anyone else’s dream. We dream according to all the beliefs that we have, and we modify our dream according to the way we judge, according to the way we are victimized. That is why dreams are never the same for any two people. In a relationship, we can pretend to be the same, to think the same, to feel the same, to dream the same, but there is no way that can happen. There are two dreamers with two dreams. Every dreamer is going to dream in his own way. That is why we need to accept the differences that exist between two dreamers; we need to respect each other’s dream.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship

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#13

“Questioning is the piety of thought”
― Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays

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#14

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

tags: starting, working

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#15

“She would keep him, keep his love, deserve it and cherish it, for this much was certain, that there was no longer any happiness possible for her without that one man's love.”
― Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

tags: love, monogamy

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#16

“You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
― Heath Sommer

tags: the-manufactured-identity

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#17

“What’s “ague?”‘ Raya asked.
‘Malaria.’ Oscar said.
‘Oh, great.’
‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.’ Raya ignored
the cat.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, coming-of-age, coming-of-age-fiction, engaging, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, occult, supernatural, young-adult

415 likes

#18

“Let a sleeping dragon lie.”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

tags: action, coming-of-age, drama, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-novel, fiction, literary-fiction, sci-fi-adventure, space-opera

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#19

“Like the blind man said as he wandered into a cannibal village . . .

“Alright! The country fair must be right up ahead. I smell barbecue!”
― John Rachel

tags: barbecue, blindness, cannibal

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#20

“Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother. She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze. She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: american-historical-romance, historical-romance, historical-victorian-romance, history, love, passion, romance, torment, victorian-romance

556 likes

#21

“The Order? Here inside such a weak soul?”
“His spirit is failing, his faith too old."
“He cannot be saved."
“Few have tried."
“He is consumed by the lion."
“He is overtaken by pride.”
― J.B. Lion, The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity

tags: action, fantasy, graphic-novel, illustrated-books, inequality, lifting-the-veil, mental-construct, sci-fi, social-structures, socioeconomics

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#22

“Peanut was a hamster. He was furry, had four legs, a big tummy and his favourite food was, you guessed it, peanuts”
― Molly Arbuthnott, Peanut the Hamster

tags: animals, children, children-s-fiction, connections, discovery, fiction, fun, hope, kids, kids-reading

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#23

“A uniformed cop around 6’4” with pock marked face squinted, “Looky here, if it ain’t one a the bad seed O’Shaughnessy’s, female version.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, adventure, drama, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, mystery, thriller

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#24

“There was a time when he would have apologized for disturbing the man and never come back to the newsstand. For years he had taken shit unlimited from people. Not anymore.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

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#25

“We executed many people by ﬁring squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.”
― Che Guevara

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#26

“war. There was now no point in a war that might once have been justified as a search for free subsistence and living space – it had degenerated into vast, inhuman mass slaughter, negating all cultural values, and it can never be justified to the German people; it will be utterly condemned by the nation as a whole. All the torturing of Poles under arrest, the shooting of prisoners of war and their bestial treatment – that can never be justified either.”
― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

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#27

“Their train speeds through the cities and crosses rivers until it reaches Paris. They leave the station, their arms around each other, and walk to the Jardin des Plantes where the panther paces the length of his cage. The young teacher nods as Hannelore Beier reaches into the cage, and strokes the animal's magnificent neck. The panther arches his back. A curtain lifts from his pupils as the pastor's sister slides aside the bolt that has kept him in captivity. His eyes like sudden, green flames, he recognizes a world beyond the bars of his cage.”
― Ursula Hegi, Floating in My Mother's Palm

tags: freedom, jardin-des-plantes, panther, rilke

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#28

“the following September I started at the grammar school. This was in a red-brick building of the kind beloved by Victorian optimists. In”
― Sebastian Faulks, Where My Heart Used to Beat

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#29

“She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark blue and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#30

“Every cold case is someone’s failure. And while every failure has many illegitimate parents, usually, one person gets stuck with the kid. Scholz was this ugly baby’s mother. And mommas can be very temperamental about their babies, especially the ugly ones.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: crime, death, fascinating, intrigue, law, murder, revenge, suspicious, tragedy

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