The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

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There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. ― John Holmes

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1. As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories! —Zoe McLellan

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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. ― Frederick Buechner

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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters. –Sandra-cisneros

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Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus. ― Frederick Buechner

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

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Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself -- Rumi

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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. — Maya Angelou

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