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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: and One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
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reading
books
fantasy
education
jrr-tolkien
children-s-literature
ayn-rand
real-world
life-changing
lord-of-the-rings
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John Rogers |
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The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
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opportunity
spirituality
positivity
success
happiness
law-of-attraction
millionaire-mindset
new-age
stephen-richards
wealth-creation
mind-power
visualization
life-changing
self-help
manifestation
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Stephen Richards |
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When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.
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opportunity
spirituality
positivity
success
happiness
law-of-attraction
new-age
stephen-richards
wealth-creation
mind-power
visualization
goal-setting
life-changing
focus
self-help
manifestation
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Stephen Richards |
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The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life--bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.
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vastness
moving
moody
life-changing
ocean
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Haruki Murakami |
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7db1e7d
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"It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")"
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fate
relationship
love
simple
life-changing
meeting
simplicity
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Cornell Woolrich |
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As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround you, you have to do so equally with your life, because it's yours, it's you, and it's always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it. I gave up on my life for a while, but what I've learned is that even when that happens and especially when that happens, life never gives up on you. Mine didn't. And we'll be there for each other until those final moments when we will look at each other and say, 'Thanks for staying until the end.' And that's the truth.
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life-changing
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.
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life-changing
self-help
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Brian Tracy |
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It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. When I decided to go to Alaska that April, like Chris McCandless, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. And I lived to tell my tale.
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hopelessness
inspiring
love
teenage
life-changing
young
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Jon Krakauer |
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The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions, unhappiness and problems in human relationships.
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inspirational
life-changing
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Brian Tracy |
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I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the faces of a danger it is unable to comprehend.
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near-death-experience
life-changing
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Joseph Conrad |
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You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what you put in.
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inspirational
life-changing
self-help
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Brian Tracy |
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You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside.
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inspirational-quotes
life-changing
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Brian Tracy |
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That was the problem these days--everything was considered disposable--clothes, cell phones, relationships.
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relationships
life-changing
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Melissa de la Cruz |
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I can't go back to being who I used to be!' Hadley looked down at him sympathetically. 'None of us can, kid.' he said. 'That's the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, you always have to build on what you live through.
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life
life-changing
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Margaret Peterson Haddix |
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Do you know, when I stepped through that gate I felt as though I had walked into a new world...something quite different from anything I had known before. I felt that something tremendously dramatic was happening and because it was all so quiet and in a way ordinary that made it rather sinister.
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new-world
quiet-difference
sinister
life-changing
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Victoria Holt |