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    Augusten Burroughs
    “As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house? Had a good little girl somewhere in the world not received the doll he'd promised her, making the father angry?”
    ― Augusten Burroughs, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
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    Augusten Burroughs
    “My grandfather blasted in. "Aw now, hell, carolyn, don't go twisting the boy back up in knots all over again now that you finally got him straightened out. They aren't leprechauns, son. they're elves. Leprechauns are those little drunk motherfuckers from Ireland.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
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    Jarod Kintz
    “The only drink I like ice in is water, because you can’t water down water. I’m like that with love, too. Don’t you dare add any ice to the hot liquid loving I’m trying to pour all over you.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.
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    Jarod Kintz
    “I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.
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    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
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    Ursula Hegi
    “That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.”
    ― Ursula Hegi
    tags: children, irony, love, parenting
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    Scott Dikkers
    “Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.”
    ― Scott Dikkers, You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day
    tags: advice, atheism, childhood, humor, kids, parenting, religion, santa
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    A.A. Milne
    “She turned to the sunlight
        And shook her yellow head,
    And whispered to her neighbor:
        "Winter is dead.”
    ― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
    tags: daffodils, spring, sunlight, winter
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
    tags: hope, poetry, spring, winter
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    Roman Payne
    “So the nymphs they spoke,
    we kissed and laid.
    By noontime’s hour
    our love was made.

    Like braided chains of crocus stems,
    we lay entwined, I laid with them.
    Our breath, one glassy, tideless sea,
    our bodies draping wearily,
    we slept, I slept so lucidly,
    with hopes to stay this memory.”
    ― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
    tags: coming-of-spring, love, nymphs, poetry, sleep, spring
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
    tags: craving, desire, life, nostalgia, seasons, spring, wanderlust
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    George Gissing
    “Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping gloom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope?”
    ― George Gissing
    tags: spring, winter
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: spring
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    Ayn Rand
    “Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: independence
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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    Mae West
    “I'm single because I was born that way.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: bachelorhood, choice, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, self-determination, singleness, singles
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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  • #22
    Socrates
    “To find yourself, think for yourself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: independence, self-reliance
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Katharine Hepburn
    “I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: gender-roles, independence, self-reliance
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    Tiffany Madison
    “Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.”
    ― Tiffany Madison
    tags: confidence, independence, love, man, modern-society, relationships, women
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  • #26
    William Shakespeare
    “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
    tags: fame, independence, self-worth
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    Paul Tillich
    “Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.”
    ― Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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  • #29
    “Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone.
    Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people.”
    ― Thomas Davidson
    tags: books, independence, self-reliance
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, retire, self, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: independence, self-reliance
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Still round the corner there may wait
    A new road or a secret gate
    And though I oft have passed them by
    A day will come at last when I
    Shall take the hidden paths that run
    West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: books, poetry
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    Shirley Jackson
    “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
    tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity
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  • #34
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The Road goes ever on and on
    Down from the door where it began.
    Now far ahead the Road has gone,
    And I must follow, if I can,
    Pursuing it with eager feet,
    Until it joins some larger way
    Where many paths and errands meet.
    And whither then? I cannot say”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: road
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