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I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

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Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#eccentric #happiness #hard-times #inspirational #ridiculous

It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers ↗

— Alexandra Robbins

#life #inspirational

NOTHING goes exactly as planned. Make your OWN destiny ↗

— Tate Hallaway

#failure #inspirational #life #plan #inspirational

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning. ↗

— George Sand

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I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#inspirational #on-fiction #storytelling #writing #inspirational

It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

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There were eleven of us. Each more different than the next. All with the same mindset. Things weren't the way they were meant to be. It was our job to make things right. We were the soldiers of Halla. It was time for us to take it back. ↗

— D.J. MacHale

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You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart. ↗

— Adrian Tan

#inspirational #life #love #inspirational

Every society needs heroes. And every society has them. The reason we don't often see them is because we don't bother to look. There are two kinds of heroes. Heroes who shine in the face of great adversity, who perform an amazing feat in a difficult situation. And heroes who live among us, who do their work unceremoniously, unnoticed by many of us, but who make a difference in the lives of others. Heroes are selfless people who perform extraordinary acts. The mark of heroes is not necessarily the result of their action, but what they are willing to do for others and for their chosen cause. Even if they fail, their determination lives on for others to follow. The glory lies not in the achievement, but in the sacrifice. ↗

— Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

#heroes #inspirational #inspirational