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#1

“Get immersed in the beauty that surrounds you. No filters, edits, or adjustments. Experience the colors, sounds, textures and smells within your reach. Live.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting

109 likes

#2

“Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
― C.Toni Graham

tags: affirmations, author, c-toni-graham, commitment, inspirational, ya-author

698 likes

#3

“You always have free will to choose your path.”
― C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals

tags: adventure, engaging, exciting, fantasy, life, suspense, teen, ya, ya-lit, young-adult

92 likes

#4

“The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting

77 likes

#5

“Sustain joy by anchoring yourself with gratitude.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting

98 likes

#6

“Life’s too short to walk around with your arms crossed and bottom lip poked out. Find a way to smile for yourself even if it’s as simple as licking the spoon clean or putting clean sheets on your bed.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting

81 likes

#7

“Writers have influenced thoughts, principals, viewpoints and experiences throughout history. A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting

74 likes

#8

“Normalness leads to sadness.”
― Phil Lester

tags: inspirational

266 likes

#9

“You should never make fun of something that a person can't change about themselves.”
― Phil Lester

tags: advice, born-this-way, bullying, change, identity, individuality, uniqueness-of-individual

279 likes

#10

“I've been embarrassing myself since about birth.”
― Phil Lester

tags: birth, embarrassment, humor, life, silly, truthfulness, weirdness

187 likes

#11

“I’m pretty sure she’s got an angel job now where she plucks a large handful of flowers and carries them up to God where they will bloom even brighter than on earth.”

Can we ask God to bring her back home?”
You know what, she’s already home.” Starla patted her chest. “She’ll always be right here in our hearts.”
But I can’t give her a hug.”

Yes, you can . . . if you hug yourself or me or Willa or Daddy or Big Pop or GoGo you’re hugging her because she’s a part of us.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

tags: fiction, fiction-novel, guilt, love, mystery, redemption, romance, sorrow, suffering

6 likes

#12

“quotation from the poet Horace. “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
― JoDee Neathery, Life in a Box

6 likes

#13

“I never rode on the back of an old
Chopper down the highway
Holdin' on tight just him and I
Makin' our getaway
I've always been the good girl
Walked the straight and narrow path all my life,

I like a man with a tan and a twisted chrome kickstand
Leanin' on a big old bike
The low rollin' sound that'll shake the ground
Comin' out of long pipes
I like a tattoo or two
Or even more if they're cool
On the big old arms of a long-haired dude
Inside of me, there's an all I wanna be
Biker chick”
― Jo Dee Messina

5 likes

#14

“Through the open drapes behind the nightstand, moonlight pouring through shadowy leaves fell haphazardly on the plastic bag full of shattered memories of his wife. He sat down on the bed, a dark silent gaze spreading over his face. Opening the bag released the flowery scent of licorice and violets—Summer’s signature perfume, Lolita Lempicka. He remembered she always said the aroma reminded her of childhood lullabies, fairies, and magic kingdoms. Matt buried his face in the tattered polo shirt she was wearing that day inhaling the faint trail of his lost love.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

tags: action, anger, drama, favorites, fiction, forgiveness, mystery, pain, suspense, suspense-thriller

2 likes

#15

“Sally could not dismiss the feeling that she and the strange man on the bus shared the same baggage, both losing their footing—both with fists clenched against the world.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

tags: blame, challenges, guilt, love, mystery, novel, redemption, romance, suspense, tradgedy

2 likes

#16

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: freedom-of-choice, government, inspirational, political-philosophy, politics

1129 likes

#17

“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: abortion, obvious, right-to-life

894 likes

#18

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: freedom, inspirational, personal-freedom

865 likes

#19

“As I sat dumbfounded, seemingly paralyzed in my corner, resorting to my old, reliable strategy of scribbling when unsure of how to respond to Sanjit, Sanjit appended his counsel with a dose of silence – one reminiscent to that of a few days prior. The students looked upward and downward, fans to notes to pens to toes, outward and inward, peers to souls, and of course, toward the direction of the perceived elephant in the room, Sanjit’s books. Simultaneously, Sanjit confidently and patiently searched among the students before finding my eyes; once connected, the lesson moved forward.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

tags: betterment, indian-education, journal, learning, life, personal-identity, poetry, soul, truths, value

147 likes

#20

“To reiterate: not all things need to be finished, and free reading is a prime example of this. Writing – or the composition of words which are intended to be read – just like painting, sculpting, or composing music, is a form of art. Typically, not all art is able to resonate with each and every viewer – or, in this case, reader. If we walk through a museum and see a boring painting, or listen to an album we don’t enjoy, we won’t keep staring at said painting, nor will we listen to the album. So, if we don’t like a book, if we aren’t learning from it, dreaming about it, enjoying its descriptions, pondering its messages, or whatever else may be redeeming about a specific book, why would we waste our time to “just finish it?” Sure, we may add another book to the list of books read, but is more always better?”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

tags: betterment, education, educational, engagement, learning, life, past, present, reflections, soul

82 likes

#21

“Sanjit says his apartment, the same one in which he grew up, has been flooded many times by the midsummer torrents. For what has been for millennia a primarily agricultural society, rains simultaneously destroy, create, and preserve life in India, similar to the functions of the three premier Hindu gods, Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu. Every time Kolkata gets pounded by a cyclone, or when the monsoon first erupts in June (although the recent warming of the Indian Ocean increasingly disturbs a once-consistent timeline), Sanjit never fails to send along a video, his house flooded – seemingly destroyed – but the smiles on his, Bajju’s, or other house-guest’s faces signify just the opposite, having been cooled and relieved of perpetual heat. Flooded, they remain preserved.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

tags: find-oneself, indian-education, journal, personal-identity, poetry, political-history, teachings, truths, value

88 likes

#22

“Yet, the work was not complete. Next, citing Bond’s veranda and our subsequent construction of it as an example, Sanjit elaborated on the thought which he had previously teased, but not fully explained: that when a reader reads, the reader constructs a setting and world and is able to view themselves through this world. However, he also added that when we read, we are not only able to see our constructed world, but to evaluate our constructed world. This is how, Sanjit would argue, we influence and better ourselves, even if unintentionally; for by pausing and analyzing our constructions we may be able to identify our assumptions about people, places, or things. And it is in this way that books may be an expressed form of art, not just for the writer, but also for the reader.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

tags: betterment, indian-education, journal, learning, life, personal-identity, poetry, soul, truths, value

78 likes

#23

“Despite the business and auto-rickshaws and bantering Bengalis just beyond his brown front door, Sanjit cultivates a distinct learning environment and energy, one created and galvanized above the tile floors, within the thin walls, below the imperative ceiling fans, and embraced by books.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

tags: find-oneself, indian-education, journal, life-lessons, personal-identity, philosophy, poetry, political-history, teachings, value

80 likes

#24

“Everyone is recharged for the second half, no bell, no forced learning, no principal’s office for tardiness or absenteeism; instead, a voluntary return to our collective pane of learning. Final conversations simmer down and the attention is refocused.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

tags: betterment, engagement, indian-education, journal, learning, life, reflections, soul, truths, value

74 likes

#25

“The television set then came after her, chomping its teeth. Upon reaching the living room, the television succeeded at eating her body bit-by-bit: first the legs, then the body, and finally her flailing arms.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: action, adult, complex, drama, fiction, literary-fiction, short-stories

117 likes

#26

“After the front legs emerged, what looked like a quartered and bloodied cut of steak followed. This piece of steak had rich and dark fur, wet with the mare’s internal membranes that covered the whole body, but it did not have the look of a horse at all. And yet from the steak’s center came this pulsating heartbeat, as though its pace-setting qualities tried in vain to pull away or escape from its thoroughbred side.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: adult, adventure, complex, drama, griping, intrigue, literary-fiction, perspectives, revenge, thrilling

66 likes

#27

“The orderly brandished a hunting knife from a sheath at his waist and sliced open the prisoner’s throat with it. Warm blood cascaded out of the prisoner’s throat, some of it spraying the captain’s uniform. The orderly waited for the prisoner to bleed to death before cutting the head clean off. Within a few minutes, the muscle that the prisoner built on his body was carved out and thrown on the grill. After the meat cooled, the orderly put the human steaks in front of the captain for dinner. As the captain ate each buttery piece, he couldn’t help but compliment the orderly for a job well-done.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: fantasy, horror, imaginative, literary-fiction, paranormal, politics, sci-fi, science-fiction, slasher

59 likes

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