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• “Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.” – W. Somerset Maugham http://tqpage.com/1538 #
• “Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.” – Adele Brookman http://tqpage.com/31240 #
• “Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.” – David Starr Jordan http://tqpage.com/25850 #
• “If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.” – Bruce Barton http://tqpage.com/2317 #

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• “No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.” – Leon Wieseltier http://tqpage.com/25882 #
• “It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.” – Norman Maclean http://tqpage.com/31257 #
• “If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is “thank you,” that would suffice.” – Meister Eckhart http://tqpage.com/30995 #
• “At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.” – Dame Rose Macaulay http://tqpage.com/1583 #

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This postcard from PostSecret made me smile in recognition.

It reads:

I am too intellectual and sophisticated to be seen reading “chick lit.”

Thank goodness for audio books and iPods…

This woman reminds me of myself just a few months ago. I finally had my romance novel epiphany. If you missed it, you can read it here:

• Quotations Weblog » Archive » Reading Romance Novels Shamelessly

In the end, I decided:

Reading romance novels shamelessly is a feminist act. It’s celebrating literature written strictly FOR women. It’s the one genre that has been tailored specifically to women, even in a male-dominated society. I should rejoice in reading romance novels and release the shame I’ve felt all these years.

I am so grateful that I’m not the only one who was hiding my book reading behind technology.

PostSecret‘s beneficiary is the National Hopeline Network. It is a 24-hour hotline (1 (800) SUICIDE) for anyone who is thinking about suicide or knows someone who is considering it.

• “If your head is wax, don’t walk in the sun.” – Benjamin Franklin http://tqpage.com/2645 #
• “Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.” – Harriet Martineau http://tqpage.com/2270 #
• “Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.” – Carl Jung http://tqpage.com/2247 #
• “Never regret something that once made you smile.” – Amber Deckers http://tqpage.com/39924 #

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• “Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton http://tqpage.com/31202 #
• “It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.” – Jean Nidetch http://tqpage.com/1695 #
• “Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.” – Victor Hugo http://tqpage.com/3171 #
• “Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.” – Dr. Joyce Brothers http://tqpage.com/38939 #

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