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  • #1
    John Green
    “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #2
    Seneca
    “But nothing delights the mind so much as fond and loyal friendship. What a blessing it is to have hearts that are ready and willing to receive all your secretes in safety, with whom you are less afraid to share knowledge of something than keep it to yourself, whose conversation soothes your distress, whose advice helps you make up your mind, whose cheerfulness dissolves your sorrow, whose very appearance cheers you up!”
    Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

  • #3
    “It took me so long to do so many important things. It's just hard to accept that I spent so many years being less happy than I could have been. Jim was five feet from my desk, and it took me four years to get to him. Not that I'm a tragic person; I'm really happy now, but it would just make my heart soar if someone out there saw this, and she said to herself, 'Be strong, trust yourself, love yourself and conquer your fears. Just go after what you want and act fast because life just isn't that long.”
    Pam Beesly

  • #4
    Seneca
    “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
    Seneca

  • #5
    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #6
    Seneca
    “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #7
    Seneca
    “Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
    Seneca

  • #8
    Seneca
    “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
    Seneca

  • #9
    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #10
    Ernest Hemingway
    “My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #11
    John Green
    “In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #12
    Markus Zusak
    “He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #13
    C.S. Lewis
    “I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
    C. S. Lewis

  • #14
    Nicole Krauss
    “there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #15
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

  • #16
    John Green
    “I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #17
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

  • #18
    Confucius
    “The funniest people are the saddest ones”
    Confucius

  • #19
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.
    Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,
    that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook
    your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

  • #20
    Victor Hugo
    “Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #21
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

  • #22
    Kenneth Daniel Olanday
    “The saddest thing after you left me was the realization that I was all alone. Maybe that's why I'm still writing to you. I have nobody else.”
    Kenneth Daniel Olanday, When the Rain Stopped Falling

  • #23
    Lori Gottlieb
    “Follow your envy - it shows you what you want.”
    Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

  • #24
    Lori Gottlieb
    “It’s impossible to get to know people deeply and not come to like them.”
    Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

  • #25
    Lori Gottlieb
    “People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn’t the absence of feelings; it’s a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.”
    Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

  • #26
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #27
    Mahmoud Darwish
    “On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.”
    Mahmoud Darwish

  • #28
    Mahmoud Darwish
    “And you became like the coffee,
    In the deliciousness,
    and the bitterness
    and the addiction.”
    Mahmoud Darwish

  • #29
    Mahmoud Darwish
    “And if happiness should surprise you again, do not mention its previous betrayal.
    Enter into the happiness, and burst.”
    Mahmoud Darwish, يوميات الحزن العادي

  • #30
    Claire Keegan
    “Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”
    Claire Keegan, Foster



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