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  • #1
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #2
    Nicolas Chamfort
    “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
    Nicolas Chamfort

  • #3
    E.E. Cummings
    “Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.”
    E.E Cummings

  • #4
    E.E. Cummings
    “listen: there’s a hell
    of a good universe next door; let’s go”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #5
    E.E. Cummings
    “The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
    e. e. cummings

  • #6
    E.E. Cummings
    “The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #7
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

  • #8
    Tom Robbins
    “It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #9
    Margaret Atwood
    “When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

    Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

  • #10
    Salvador Dalí
    “At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #11
    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

  • #12
    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    Patricia Highsmith

  • #13
    Mo Willems
    “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
    Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

  • #14
    Clementine von Radics
    “I am not the first person you loved.
    You are not the first person I looked at
    with a mouthful of forevers. We
    have both known loss like the sharp edges
    of a knife. We have both lived with lips
    more scar tissue than skin. Our love came
    unannounced in the middle of the night.
    Our love came when we’d given up
    on asking love to come. I think
    that has to be part
    of its miracle.
    This is how we heal.
    I will kiss you like forgiveness. You
    will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms
    will bandage and we will press promises
    between us like flowers in a book.
    I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat
    on your skin. I will write novels to the scar
    of your nose. I will write a dictionary
    of all the words I have used trying
    to describe the way it feels to have finally,
    finally found you.

    And I will not be afraid
    of your scars.

    I know sometimes
    it’s still hard to let me see you
    in all your cracked perfection,
    but please know:
    whether it’s the days you burn
    more brilliant than the sun
    or the nights you collapse into my lap
    your body broken into a thousand questions,
    you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
    I will love you when you are a still day.
    I will love you when you are a hurricane.”
    Clementine von Radics

  • #15
    Clementine von Radics
    “You never need to apologize
    for how you chose to survive.”
    Clementine von Radics

  • #16
    Clementine von Radics
    “A long time ago, before I even met you,
    someone replaced my chest with a broken record.
    For years, it’s been stammering through
    the same old tune.
    I want you to know I’m trying.
    I quit smoking. I’m doing yoga. And those days
    I wake up wishing for death are getting fewer
    and farther apart.

    No, I’m not ok. But I haven’t been ok
    since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though.
    I’m still breathing. For me, sometimes, that
    will have to be enough”
    Clementine von Radics

  • #17
    Clementine von Radics
    “I said, I love you
    when I meant something much
    more specific, I should have said,
    Please don't leave me,
    I'm afraid to sleep alone.

    Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers

  • #18
    “And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”
    Christopher Poindexter

  • #19
    Lauren Oliver
    “She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.

    And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a word to express it, and that made Liesl feel hopeful, somehow.”
    Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po

  • #20
    Julia Gregson
    “She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there”
    Julia Gregson, East of the Sun

  • #21
    Milan Kundera
    I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive. My self does not differ substantially from yours in terms of its thought. Many people, few ideas: we all think more or less the same, and we exchange, borrow, steal thoughts from one another. However, when someone steps on my foot, only I feel the pain. The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of egocentrism.”
    Milan Kundera, Immortality

  • #22
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #23
    Greta Garbo
    “There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.”
    Greta Garbo

  • #24
    Nicole Krauss
    “She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-form to do this, she should have a species named after her. Once Uncle Julian told me how the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti said that sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you’re limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter-of-an-inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.

    My mother did not choose a leaf or a head. She chose my father. And to hold on to a certain feeling, she sacrificed the world.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #25
    Fernando Pessoa
    “If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.”
    Fernando Pessoa , The Book of Disquiet

  • #26
    M. Scott Peck
    “Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.”
    M. Scott Peck

  • #27
    Kami Garcia
    “In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.”
    Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

  • #28
    bell hooks
    “Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.”
    bell hooks

  • #29
    Anthon St. Maarten
    “Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”
    Anthon St. Maarten

  • #30
    E.E. Cummings
    “since feeling is first
    who pays any attention
    to the syntax of things
    will never wholly kiss you;

    wholly to be a fool
    while Spring is in the world

    my blood approves,
    and kisses are a far better fate
    than wisdom
    lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
    --the best gesture of my brain is less than
    your eyelids' flutter which says

    we are for eachother: then
    laugh, leaning back in my arms
    for life's not a paragraph

    And death i think is no parenthesis”
    E.E. Cummings



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