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  • #1
    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #2
    Neil Gaiman
    “She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

    She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
    Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

  • #3
    Lord Byron
    “She walks in beauty, like the night
    Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
    And all that's best of dark and bright
    Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”
    Lord Byron

  • #4
    Criss Jami
    “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
    Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

  • #6
    Rupi Kaur
    “do not look for healing
    at the feet of those
    who broke you”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #7
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

  • #8
    Santosh Kalwar
    “If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.”
    Santosh Kalwar

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    Elbert Hubbard
    “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #11
    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #12
    Hafez
    “And still, after all this time,
    The sun never says to the earth,
    "You owe Me."

    Look what happens with
    A love like that,
    It lights the Whole Sky.”
    Hafiz

  • #13
    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #14
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “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

  • #15
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #16
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #17
    There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable
    “There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

  • #18
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
    "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #20
    Matsuo Bashō
    “Winter solitude-
    in a world of one colour
    the sound of the wind.”
    Basho Matsuo

  • #21
    William Blake
    “Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
    William Blake

  • #22
  • #23
    Pablo Neruda
    “By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two
    together in their sleep will defeat the darkness”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #24
    Philip Larkin
    “Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”
    Philip Larkin

  • #25
    L.M. Elliott
    “Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.”
    Laura Malone Elliott, Annie, Between the States

  • #26
    Nikita Gill
    “She is alone.
    And oh
    how brilliantly she shines.”
    Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty

  • #27
    Mother Teresa
    “In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #28
    Charles Bukowski
    “we must bring
    our own light
    to the
    darkness.”
    Charles Bukowski



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