Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

John Connolly's Popular Quotes

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Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.

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They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

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You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.

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Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

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This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.

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He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that th…

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