Your Strong

The world breaks everyone,

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway

Take your life in

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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong

Just don\\’t give up

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Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald

Stop wearing your wishbone

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Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. Elizabeth Gilbert

When you look fear

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When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ Eleanor Roosevelt

A woman is like

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A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt

Gideon laughed. \\\”I like

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Gideon laughed. \”I like to be direct.\” \”Okay,\” I said. \”But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages.\” \”I doubt it.\” \”Human interaction is not my strong point,\” I told him. \”Not seriously.\” \”Seriously,\” I said. Thinking: There is so much about me he doesn’t know. Gideon put … Read more

It is easier to

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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass

You\’ve got to sell

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You’ve got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of … Read more