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Jodi Picoult Inspirational Quotes (592)

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Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.
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Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.
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Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.
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What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?
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People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.
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The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
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Eric understands that the world is rarelythe way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.
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Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
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Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
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If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do? Make them stay. And if you can't do that, or don't know how to? Ellie shrugged. I don't know. Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first, Coop said, so you don't have to watch them walk away.
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What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
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On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.
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Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.
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The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.
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People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?
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You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.
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I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.
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You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.
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Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.
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You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you. Was there a next time? Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?
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You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.
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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
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I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
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