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“Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.”

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Karen Hesse

Karen Hesse, born on August 29, 1952, is a renowned American author. Her works are known for their profound character development and rich imagination, particularly in depicting the psychological changes in the process of youth growth. Hesse's books have won numerous literary awards, including the Newbery Medal for Children's Literature. more

“Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity.”

Giving Humans Art Feelings Care Fall Difficult Love Is Effort Activity Capitalism Spontaneous Human Activity

Author:Erich Fromm

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”

Feelings Natural Practice Discipline Overcoming Concentration Narcissism Art Of Loving

Author:Erich Fromm

“there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.”

Moments Next Share Minutes Lovers Losing Intimacy Triumph Distinction Flaws Losing Friends Fatal Flaws

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.”

Firsts Use Moving Humanity Natural Justice Rights Labor Organization Thirds Fundamentals Human Rights Soil Fourth Fifth Fundamental Rights

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.”

People Love Life Compassion Love You Positive Thinking Positivity Positive Attitude Love Life Inspirational Love Pianist Sticky Appreciate Life Back Love

Author:Arthur Rubinstein

“No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused”

Opportunity Space Regret Carols Amends Misused Christmas Carol

Book:Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

“Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.”

Ifs Looks Mean Hard Wonderful Maps Profile Steep Maine

Author:Bill Bryson

“He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset”

People Knows Enough Wise Happened Laughter Globes Scrooge Christmas Carol

Book:A Christmas Carol (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: A Christmas Carol (Sparklesoup Classics)

“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”

Source: A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

“Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses.”

People Looks Poor Stupid Baby Mass Burned Poor People Burned Out Dead Baby

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

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