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• Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work, but Peterson pulls it off. For readers who want nonstop action infused with powerful, life-changing themes, North! Or Be Eaten is a must-read.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Powerful, Heart, Laughing

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• Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.

  Frank Langella

  Book, Attention, Littles

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• Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Knowing, Littles, Next

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• Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Dark

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.103, Beacon Press

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• My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall.

  Angela Merkel

  Wall, Fall, Changed

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• I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Believe, Book, People

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Being A 'Brown Girl' Who Dreams". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 18, 2014.

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• My life changed in a huge way. Mentally, I've been preparing for it for over a year now. To me, it's bigger than that. For me, it shows a lot of people that you need to fight to be in your kids' lives sometimes. You fight until you can't fight any more. That's all I was trying to be, a father in his kids' lives.

  Dwyane Wade

  Father, Kids, Fighting

  "Nasty Celebrity Custody Battles: Usher vs. Tameka Foster" by Luchina Fisher, abcnews.go.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Dream, Keys, Race

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• Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  John C. Maxwell (2002). “Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• These are the days in which a true leader wants to live. These are days when opportunities to change lives and even destinies are nearly endless. You are running the anchor leg of the relay because you were born to lead. You were born for glory.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Running, Opportunity, Destiny

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• we are the ones we have been waiting for

  Alice Walker

  Change, Confidence, Yes We Can

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

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• You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Change, Graveyard, Can Do

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• Fashion changes, but style endures.

  Coco Chanel

  Change, Fashion, Style

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• The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Communication

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• Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

  Diane Ackerman

  People, Soul, Library

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• Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Joy, Serenity

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Oct 05, 2015

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• Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

  Cheri Huber

  Inspirational, Fear, Safety

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• I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

  Anne Frank

  Writing, Kids, Sorrow

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Aug 12, 2015

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• Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

  E. B. White

  Children, True Friend, Heart

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Easter, Prayer

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• It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

  Alison Bechdel

  Home, Gone, Return

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

  Lois Lowry

  Distance, Echoes, Space

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.

  Debbie Macomber

  Simple, Offering, Giving

  Debbie Macomber (2009). “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and life-changing chaos, I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was walking the path my Goddess wanted me on. Not that that path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." Untamed

  P. C. Cast

  Sweet, Unique, Untamed

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