I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books — where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas. ― Langston Hughes

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Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

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she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star. _ Louisa May Alcott

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Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future. - Donatella Versace

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Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come. — Ellen DeGeneres

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Believe in yourself. Stay in your own lane. There’s only one you. —Queen Latifah

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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

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How do we find the Lord? I believe we have to seek Him in simple things. I believe we have to seek Him in personal prayer. I believe we must seek Him in personal service. I believe we seek and find Jesus when we follow His example.

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