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"Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy."
Wide Awake by David Levithan
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"You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it’s a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before."
The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
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"A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you’re young. But you can’t let money erode your principles or you’ll wind up with nothing."
Sammy Keyes And The Dead Giveaway by Wendelin Van Draanen
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"There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?"
Wide Awake by David Levithan
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"It’s always easier to say good-bye when you know it’s just a prelude to hello."
The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
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"We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we’d learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did."
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"One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I’d just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn’t have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples."
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
(Submitted by hmoments)
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"The term “forgive and forget” doesn’t make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn’t always healthy. But if we forget, we don’t learn from our mistakes."
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"You should know,” said Estella. “I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me."
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
(Submitted by alicemarla)
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"That’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
