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#1

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: life-poetry

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#2

“The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

tags: home, journey, love, wanderlust

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#3

“The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

tags: 165, meaning, stars, stories

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#4

“Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

tags: stories

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#5

“The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

tags: epiphany, errand, magic, street

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#6

“Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

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#7

“...to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender...”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

tags: choice, mystery, presence, surrender, uncertainty

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#8

“But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

tags: mother, stories

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#9

“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: stories, sylvia-plath

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#10

“We're all stories, in the end.”
― Steven Moffat

tags: amy-pond, doctor-who, eleven, steven-moffat, stories

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#11

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: achievements, charity, commencement-speech, death, death-and-dying, dying, epitaph, eulogy, funerals, goals, gravestone, hearts, kindness, legacy, life, life-lessons, life-missions, life-purpose, purpose, speeches, stories, story, tombstones, tribute

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#12

“My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.”
― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

tags: culture, heritage, stories, storytelling

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#13

“Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.
Art consists of the persistence of memory.”
― Stephen King, Misery

tags: art, hurts, memory, misery, novels, persistence, remember, requirements, scars, stephen-king, stories, talent, writers

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#14

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#15

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time

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#16

“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: art, capture, fashion-designer, forever, gone, impossible, memories, memory, moment, photo, photography, reproduce, shoot

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#17

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
― Rita Mae Brown

tags: bad-memory, forgiveness, happiness, memory

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#18

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

tags: attachment, death, loss, worth

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#19

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#20

“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: action, blessings, carpe-diem, dance, enthusiasm, express, inspiration, live, love, motivation, music, share, sing, talk, truth, walk

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#21

“I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: nonsense, nothing, talk

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#22

“The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.”
― Roy T. Bennett

tags: important, influence, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leaders, leadership, life, life-quotes, listen, listening, living, motivation, motivational, talk, talking

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#23

“If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.”
― Mitsugi Saotome

tags: life, purpose, someone, talk

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#24

“Do more listening than talking; talk more about them than about you.”
― Roy T. Bennett

tags: important, influence, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leaders, leadership, life, life-quotes, listen, listening, living, motivation, motivational, talk, talking

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#25

“Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: adage, always, aphorism, ask, calm, circumstance, everything, flow, forgive, give-in, happen, harmony, inspirational, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kind, kindness, kojouri, let-go, maxim, mind, mindful, mindfulness, moment, nothing, peace, present, quote, rights, say, serene, serenity, silence, silent, simple-quotes, speak, surrender, talk, think, think-before-you-act, thought, tranquility, truth, unity, zen

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#26

“There were moments before moments, in which the world was framed in startling clarity, a defined before hurtling toward a horrible after. Moments in which the powerful were powerless, in which promises became failings.
This was such a moment.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

tags: fantasy, fantasy-young-adult, moments, moments-of-life, ya-fantasy

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#27

“one thing that i always know when i take your photos, is that you only look at the camera. not my eyes”
― Ahmad Arief

tags: camera, eyes, photos

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