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What happened to them is a tragedy. So we want to help. That's what you are supposed to do as a citizen.


Avelina Blackman

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You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up.
"Yes," I sai...
SARAH DESSEN Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.
CRAIG GROESCHEL What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Romance is like having to go through security at airports in order to get on the plane.
BOBBY W. MILLER Wanting something badly even though it could hurt you," Bentley repeated. He looked up at the ceilin...
NELLIE CHRISTINE Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you...
LISA KLEYPAS We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not wan...
JAMES JONES So," he said as we turned onto the main road, the muffler rattling, "I've been thinking."
"Yeah...
SARAH DESSEN Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
~WALT DISNEY Ah, Zora, you are so naive," the fire fairy said with a hearty chuckle. "You have no idea what happe...
MARKELLE GRABO The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out.
JEFFREY FRY Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn...
SARAH DESSEN It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE At the end, what matters is that you tried
SOTONYE ANGA Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON "Since we don't always get we want, the growth is in making what we get, what we want." - Simcha Glu...
SIMCHA GLUCK Basically, you're not supposed to lay your hands on a recruit. You don't really want to have drill i...
EUGENE FIDELL Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w...
ANTHONY LICCIONE Don’t waste your time trying to impress others to satisfy their ego. do what you love & love what ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once...
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on th...
T.H. WHITE What do you do? What are you supposed to do?
MARSHALL FAULK Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm a...
MICHAEL POLLAN I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he...
MACY GRAY If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Life is challenging enough already and, with what has happened, we want to do everything we can to h...
BILL MONROE You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY I come from a large Mexican family where we had to make ends meet. So we have to help them too. That...
AVELINA BLACKMAN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD In life, it is not a case of what you want but more like what you would like in a case of any decisi...
GARY F EVANS... A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... Dress to express not to impress.
DEBASISH MRIDHA In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Many are arrogant because of the knowledge they possess, but they have no knowledge of how arrogant ...
MADDY MALHOTRA Do what you love doing.
JULIANNA MARGULIES You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR ...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is impo...
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

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