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Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices. ↗

— Demi Lovato

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I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral. ↗

— Betty Greene

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He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything. ↗

— Spencer Johnson

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It takes a good man to prevent a catastrophe, and a great man to make use of one. ↗

— Richelieu Three Musketeers By Duma

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The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time. The more we say thanks, the more we find to be thankful for. And the more we find to be thankful for, the happier we become. We don't give thanks because we're happy. We are happy because we give thanks. ↗

— Douglas Wood

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Yes?" she asked, eyeing me guardedly. I struck out a hand and said "Shake." Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. "One good fight doesn't make you a warrior," she said. "Shake!" I repeated angrily. "And if I don't?" she asked. "I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do," I growled. Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. "Power to you, Darren Shan," she said gruffly. "Power," I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night. ↗

— Darren Shan

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There is no need to put your heart in a bottle, then you will die. - Ty from Stolen ↗

— Lucy Christopher

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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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