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Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better. ↗

— Chetan Bhagat

#life-lessons #forgiveness

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don’t say “I’ll never be good”. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#writing #inspirational

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#imagination #inspirational #writing #imagination

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control. ↗

— Anonymous

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How I go to the woods Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#love #nature #poetry #prayer #spirituality

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#argumentation #avoidance #challenge #challenger #contempt

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

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