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    Ana Claudia Antunes
    “Like the moon shining bright
    Up high with all its grace,
    I can only show you at night
    And hide half of my face.”
    ― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine
    tags: ambiguities, ambiguous-ending, amorous, betrayal, cheating-in-relationships, dark, dark-fiction, deceive, deceiving, decifer, enamorated, half-truths, hide, hide-feelings, illumination, illusion, in-love, lies, light, love, mischievous, moon, mysterious, mystery, mystical, mysticism, night, occult, occultism, optical-illusions, perceived-reality, romantic-love, shade, shadows, shining-bright, telling-lies, telling-stories, telling-the-truth, version, version-of-reality, versions-of-love, way
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    Carolyn Riker
    “The Moon is always there. A half blink of shadow, a crescent of an eyelash, opulent in fullness, spellbound in nothingness, and a friend.”
    ― Carolyn Riker, Blue Clouds: A Collection of Soul’s Creative Intelligence
    tags: friendship, moon-magic, moon-quotes, mysterious
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  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “Our lives really do seem strange and mysterious when you look back on them. Filled with unbelievably bizarre coincidences and unpredictable, zigzagging developments. While they are unfolding, it’s hard to see anything weird about them, no matter how closely you pay attention to your surroundings. In the midst of the everyday, these things may strike you as simply ordinary things, a matter of course. They might not be logical, but time has to pass before you can see if something is logical.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore
    tags: coincidences, developments, lives, logical, look-back, mysterious, strange
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    Jan Moran
    “The orchid, queen of exoticism, a mute observer slow to reveal the mysteries of her petals. Would that I had such patience, too. -DB”
    ― Jan Moran, Scent of Triumph
    tags: exoticism, mysterious, orchid
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  • #5
    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
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    David Levithan
    “I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.”
    ― David Levithan, Every Day
    tags: drifter, future, lonely, loner, past
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    Albert Einstein
    “Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert-einstein, einstein, inspirational, loner
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    Criss Jami
    “Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: absorbent, ambivert, assumption, awareness, bias, cool, crazy, culture, discernment, down-to-earth, extrovert, friendly, intelligent, introversion, introvert, judgment, knowledge, learned, loner, misunderstood, mysterious, normal, observation, odd, prejudgment, prudence, psychology, quiet-people, reality, reflection, shy, silence, social, social-awareness, strange, thinking, underestimated, understanding, weird, wisdom
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    Jo Nesbø
    “Bjarne Møller, my former boss, says people like me always choose the line of most resistance. It's in what he calls our 'accursed nature'. That's why we always end up on our own. I don't know. I like being alone. Perhaps I have grown to like my self-image of being a loner, too....I think you have to find something about yourself that you like in order to survive. Some people say being alone is unsociable and selfish. But you're independent and you don't drag others down with you, if that's the way you're heading. Many people are afraid of being alone. But it made me feel strong, free and invulnerable.”
    ― Jo Nesbø, Frelseren
    tags: independence, loner, self-image
    98 likes

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: affable, alone, amicable, anchoress, anchorite, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, antisocial, approachable, ascetic, by-oneself, chummy, cloistered, clubby, communicative, companionable, companionless, convivial, cordial, eremite, extrovert, forthcoming, friendless, friendly, genial, gregarious, hail-fellow-well-met, hermit, hermitic, incommunicado, introvert, isolate, isolation, lone-wolf, lonely, loner, lonesome, marabout, misanthrope, misanthropy, on-one-s-own, open, outgoing, recluse, reclusive, responsive, seclude, secluded, sociable, solitarian, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte, unaccompanied, unsociable, warm, withdrawn
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  • #11
    “I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.”
    ― Bela Lugosi
    tags: hearts, loner, minds, people
    84 likes

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  • #12
    Sreesha Divakaran
    “He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person’s life.”
    ― Sreesha Divakaran, A Little Chorus of Love
    tags: commitment, crave, loner, solitude
    35 likes

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  • #13
    Criss Jami
    “I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: caution, cynical-humor, danger, distrust, introvert, loner, majority, minority, solitude, unsafe
    66 likes

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  • #14
    Catherine Lacey
    “I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.”
    ― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
    tags: antisocial, catherine-lacey, don-t-care, exhausting, faking-it, friendless, friendliness, friends, friendship, isolation, loner, misanthrope, no-friends, nobody-is-ever-missing, relationships
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    Lauren Sapala
    “If you are a Sensitive Intuitive, then you are also a born healer. Writing is one of your heart's passions, but only one. You also have a life purpose to use your healer abilities to be of service to the world.”
    ― Lauren Sapala, The Infj Writer: Cracking the Creative Genius of the World's Rarest Type
    tags: healer, infj, life-purpose, myers-briggs, sensitive-intuitive, service-to-others, writing
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    Yong Kang Chan
    “Intuition has always been my greatest gift. It has provided me with many ideas for my creative work and saved me from a lot of trouble. It’s just that when I feel stressed and desperate, I forget this gift.”
    ― Yong Kang Chan, The Emotional Gift: Memoir of a Highly Sensitive Person Who Overcame Depression
    tags: depression, gift, infj, intuition, intuitive, spiritual-gifts
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    Lauren Sapala
    “As you work more and put more energy into spreading your light and helping others, your life will begin to change and you will become more comfortable with your Sensitive Intuitive self. Ultimately, you will understand your gifts and how you were meant to use them here.”
    ― Lauren Sapala, The Infj Writer: Cracking the Creative Genius of the World's Rarest Type
    tags: creativity, infj, life-purpose, sensitive-intuitive, writing
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  • #18
    “COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

    I was born the day
    I thought:
    What is?
    What was?
    And
    What if?

    I was transformed the day
    My ego shattered,
    And all the superficial, material
    Things that mattered
    To me before,
    Suddenly ceased
    To matter.

    I really came into being
    The day I no longer cared about
    What the world thought of me,
    Only on my thoughts for
    Changing the world.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: alive, aliveness, approval, asking-questions, awake, awaken, awakened, awakening, be, becoming, being, birth, bliss, born, caring, change-the-world, changing-the-world, comfortable-with-yourself, conscious, consciousness, ego, egoism, egoismo, egotism, enlightenment, evolution, evolving, freedom-of-thought, growing, growth, immaterial, life, light, loving-yourself, material, materialism, peace, poem, poetry, reborn, reflection, reflections-on-life, self-awareness, self-love, self-reflection, state-of-being, superficial, superficial-culture, suzy-kassem, think, thinking, thought, thoughts-on-life, to-be, transform, transformation, what-if, what-is, what-was, wisdom, wise, world, world-citizen, world-peace
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    Hermann Hesse
    “An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: demian, duty, enlightenment, hermann-hesse
    117 likes

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  • #20
    “Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.

    Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!

    Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!

    Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!

    Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor
    tags: be-different, best, breakthrough, excel, excellent, exceptional, extra, extra-mile, food-for-thought, go, make-a-difference, move-on, scratch, stand, standout-stand-out, you-can-do-it
    72 likes

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  • #21
    Aletheia Luna
    “If you are an introvert, you are born
    with a temperament that craves to be alone, delights in meaningful connections, thinks before speaking and observes before approaching. If you are an introvert, you thrive in the inner
    sanctuary of the mind, heart and spirit, but shrink in the external world of noise, drama and chaos. As an introvert, you are sensitive, perceptive, gentle and reflective. You prefer to operate behind the scenes, preserve your precious energy and influence the world in a quiet,
    but powerful way.”
    ― Aletheia Luna, Quiet Strength: Embracing, Empowering and Honoring Yourself as an Introvert
    tags: inspirational, introversion, introvert, introverts, personality-traits, personality-types, reserved
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    Helen Oyeyemi
    “She doesn't want to see anyone. She's happy like that, I think. Always relieved at the end of a visit.”
    ― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox
    tags: antisocial, helen-oyeyemi, misanthropic, mr-fox, recluse, reserved
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  • #23
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: affluent, bashful, broke, confidence, confident, destitute, introvert, introverted, low-self-esteem, money, needy, penniless, poor, poverty, poverty-stricken, reserved, rich, self-conscious, self-consciousness, self-esteem, sheepish, shy, shyness, timid, wealth, wealthy
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  • #24
    “Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: achievement, ambition, attitude, blooms, chase, comparing-to-others, comparison, comparison-to-others, doubt, drive, excel, excellent, faith, fear, flower, focus, great, greatness, insecurity, life, motivation, passion, passionate, skill, success, successful, time, waste-time, willpower
    82 likes

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  • #25
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “It’s the unknown that draws people.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: adventure, adventures, attraction, discovery, fascination, love-of-the-unknown, magnetism, mysteries, mysterious, mystery, people, unknown
    128 likes

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  • #26
    Charles Bukowski
    “The Blue Bird
    from The Last Night of the Earth Poems

    there’s a bluebird in my heart that
    wants to get out
    but I’m too tough for him,
    I say, stay in there, I’m not going
    to let anybody see
    you.

    there’s a bluebird in my heart that
    wants to get out
    but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
    cigarette smoke
    and the whores and the bartenders
    and the grocery clerks
    never know that
    he’s
    in there.

    there’s a bluebird in my heart that
    wants to get out
    but I’m too tough for him,
    I say,
    stay down, do you want to mess
    me up?
    you want to screw up the
    works?
    you want to blow my book sales in
    Europe?

    there’s a bluebird in my heart that
    wants to get out
    but I’m too clever, I only let him out
    at night sometimes
    when everybody’s asleep.
    I say, I know that you’re there,
    so don’t be sad.

    then I put him back,
    but he’s still singing a little
    in there, I haven’t quite let him
    die
    and we sleep together like
    that
    with our
    secret pact
    and it’s nice enough to
    make a man
    weep, but I don’t
    weep, do
    you?”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Holly Black
    “You have only seen the least of what I can do.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: dangerous, dark, elfham, enemies, faerie, jude, mysterious, prince-cardan
    186 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adversity, battles, beginnings, blog, classes, freedom, friendships, future, hanging-on, happiness, joy, letting-go, life, life-coach, living-life-to-the-fullest, moving-on, past, pinterest, positive-outlook, problems, relationships, relationships-101, starting-over, staying-positive, staying-positive-university, stayingpositiveu-com, success, trials, website
    234 likes

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  • #29
    Aberjhani
    “Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.”
    ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
    tags: dreams, faith, grief, hatred, healing, human-nature, national-poetry-month, poetry, rebirth, resurrection, starting-over, world-suicide-prevention-day
    202 likes

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    Lee Iacocca
    “So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca”
    ― Lee Iacocca
    tags: starting-over, uncertainty
    146 likes



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