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RELATIONSHIPS: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Albert Camus, C.G. Jung, Deepak Chopra, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J.K. Rowling, Julio Cortázar, Oscar Wilde, Paulo Coelho And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. William Paul Young-Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for lovebut dont put your life on hold waiting for love. Mandy Hale-I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship. Brené Brown-When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. Jess C. Scott-I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together. Lisa Kleypas,-The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. C.G. Jung

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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in «The Final Problem», and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival. One of the most famous stories ever written, in 2003, the book was listed as number 128 of 200 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's «best-loved novel». In 1999, it was listed as the top Holmes novel, with a perfect rating from Sherlockian scholars of 100. -EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Plot SummaryBook Origins And BackgroundBook Inspiration

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GOD: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Gandhi, John Lennon, Woody Allen, Carl Sagan, Paulo Coelho, Albert Einstein, Alan Watts, Stephen Hawking, Rumi, Bob Dylan, Desmond Tutu And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:God has no religion.– Mahatma Gandhi-God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.– Elbert Hubbard-Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.– Corrie ten Boom-The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.– Søren Kierkegaard-Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.– Joni Eareckson Tada

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The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization, and relies on primordial instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild.London spent almost a year in the Yukon, and his observations form much of the material for the book. The story was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in the summer of 1903 and was published a month later in book form. The book's great popularity and success made a reputation for London. As early as 1923, the story was adapted to film, and it has since seen several more cinematic adaptations.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Plot SummaryBook BackgroundBook Publication History

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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a gothic story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, «The Legend of Sleepy Hollow» was first published in 1820. Along with Irving's companion piece «Rip Van Winkle», «The Legend of Sleepy Hollow» is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Plot SummaryBook Background

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HAPPINESS: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Anne Frank, Aristotle, Dalai Lama, Dale Carnegie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jack Kerouac, John Lennon, Gandhi, Mark Twain, Mother Teresa, Oprah Winfrey And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. Mark Twain-Whoever is happy will make others happy. Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl-If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama XIV-I'd far rather be happy than right any day. Douglas Adams-Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain's works during his lifetime.Though overshadowed by its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book is by many considered a masterpiece of American literature, and was one of the first novels to be written on a typewriter.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Plot SummaryBook Critical Analysis

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WISDOM: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Bruce Lee, Carl Sagan, Isaac Newton, John Lennon, Lao Tzu, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why. William Stafford-Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle-The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates-It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses. William Arthur Ward-A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent. Roy T. Bennett-I'm not young enough to know everything. J.M. Barrie

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Jekyll Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the phrase «Jekyll and Hyde» entering the vernacular to refer to people with an unpredictably dual nature: usually very good, but sometimes shockingly evil. -EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Plot SummaryBook Reception

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SPIRITUALITY: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Alan Watts, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Carl Sagan, Confucius, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, John Lennon, Mother Teresa, Osho, Paulo Coelho And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar-Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you. Rashi-I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things. Paulo Coelho- I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.It's just getting out of one car, and into another. John Lennon-Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. Joseph Campbell-The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart. Gautama Buddha

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