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#1

“We're all golden sunflowers inside.”
― allen ginsberg

tags: contentment, happiness, love

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#2

“The sunflower is mine, in a way.”
― Vincent van Gogh

tags: sunflowers

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#3

“despite knowing
they won’t be here for long
they still choose to live
their brightest lives

- sunflowers”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

tags: short-lives, sunflowers, time

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#4

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.”
― Helen Keller

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#5

“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: inspirational

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#6

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: individuality, inspirational, misattributed, self-acceptance

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#7

“I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.
They're in my head.”
― Kurt Cobain, Artwork

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#8

“People haven't always been there for me but music always has.”
― Taylor Swift

tags: music

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#9

“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

tags: attraction, co-dependence, divorce, idealism, idealists, marriage, narcissism, sociopathology, the-rules-of-attraction, victims-of-narcissists

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#10

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

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#11

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: loneliness, misattributed

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#12

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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#13

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: renewal, summer

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#14

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#15

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

tags: music

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#16

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

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#17

“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

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#18

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
― Bob Marley

tags: bob-marley, inspirational, music, reggae

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#19

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

tags: humor, life, music

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#20

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

tags: death, life, music

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#21

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

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#22

“Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.”
― Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems

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#23

“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”
― Nicholas Sparks

tags: love, nicholas-sparks, relationships, the-choice

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#24

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dumbledore, magic, music, power-of-music

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#25

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy

tags: dreams, music

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#26

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

tags: arts, life, music, poetry

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#27

“The earth has its music for those who will listen”
― Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies

tags: misattributed-george-santayana

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#28

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: music, truth

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#29

“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: beauty, music, sadness

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#30

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: books, reading

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