Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

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The one bit of color on the woman’s body was the bright yellow of the stilettos peeking out from her sensible trousers. Fuck me shoes. Damn. Any woman who wore those shoes had a streak of the unexpected. He wondered what her underwear looked like. Something delicate and lovely? ― Lexi Blake, The Dom Who Loved Me

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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ― Howard Thurman

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.- Oscar Wilde

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If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. ― Lucy Larcom

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To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

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A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones — Kristin Hannah

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I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there. ― David Mitchell

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