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#1

“Als junger Mensch hatte ich das Gefühl, ein anderes, falsches Leben zu führen. Noch stärker als meine Geschwister habe ich mich gefragt, wie sehr mich Ereignisse aus meiner Kindheit und Jugend bestimmt haben, und erst spät habe ich verstanden, dass in Wahrheit nur ich selbst der Architekt meiner Existenz bin. Ich bin es, wenn ich zulasse, dass meine Vergangenheit mich beeinflusst, und ich bin es umgekehrt genauso, wenn ich mich ihr widersetzte.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

tags: entscheidungen, existenz, leben, vergangenheit

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#2

“Was, wenn es die Zeit nicht gibt? Wenn alles, was man erlebt, ewig ist und wenn nicht die Zeit an einem vorübergeht, sondern nur man selbst an dem Erlebten?”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

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#3

“Denn ich weiß, dass es falsch ist, sich so in sich selbst zurückzuziehen. Ich möchte dort sein, wo du auch bist, und das ist die Wirklichkeit.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

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#4

“The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat -- soft and persistent, underlying everything.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

tags: glbt, simon-spier

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#5

“Das Gegengift zu Einsamkeit ist nicht das wahllose Zusammensein mit irgendwelchen Leuten. Das Gegengift zu Einsamkeit ist Geborgenheit.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

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#6

“Um sein wahres Ich zu finden, ist es notwendig, alles in Frage zu stellen, was man bei der Geburt vorgefunden hat. Manches davon auch zu verlieren, denn oft lernt man nur im Schmerz, was wirklich zu einem gehört... Es sind die Brüche, in denen man sich erkennt.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

tags: existenz, leben, selbstfindung

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#7

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

tags: kindness

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#8

“It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different. I think we're at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#9

“Nicht müde werden, sondern dem Wunder, leise, wie ein Vogel, die Hand hinhalten.”
― Hilde Domin

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#10

“Vielleicht wird nichts verlangt von uns, während wir hier sind, als ein Gesicht leuchtend zu machen, bis es durchsichtig wird.”
― Hilde Domin

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#11

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

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#12

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

tags: love

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#13

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: inspirational

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#14

“It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: the-little-prince

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#15

“We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. —PROSPERO, THE TEMPEST, ACT IV, SCENE 1”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#16

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: love

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#17

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#18

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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#19

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
― Albert Einstein

tags: 1955, curiosity, mystery

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#20

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: giving, goals, goals-in-life, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, learn, learning, life, life-quotes, light, light-and-darkness, living-life, meaning, meaning-of-life, meaningful, meaningful-life, wisdom, wise

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#21

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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#22

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

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#23

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness

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#24

“The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.”
― Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

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#25

“Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.”
― Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

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#26

“Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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#27

“Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s the chaos which helps us find where we belong.”
― robert m drake

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#28

“Lately I can't help wanting us
to be like other people.
For example, if I were a smoker,

you'd lift a match to the cigarette
just as I put it between my lips.
It's never been like that

between us: none of that
easy chemistry, no quick, half automatic
flares. Everything between us

had to be learned.
Saturday finds me brooding
behind my book, all my fantasies

of seduction run up
against the rocks.
Tell me again

why you don't like
sex in the afternoon?
No, don't tell me--

I'll never understand you
never understand us, America's strangest
loving couple: they never

drink a bottle of wine together
and rarely look at each other.
Into each other's eyes, I mean.”
― Deborah Garrison, A Working Girl Can't Win

tags: couples, life, love, passion, relationships, romance

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#29

“We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: eternity, travelers

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#30

“No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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