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“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
― pleasefindthis

“A heart filled with anger has no room for love.”
― Joan Lunden, Wake-Up Calls: Making The Most Out Of Every Day

“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”
― Lemony Snicket

“i am mine.
before i am ever anyone else's.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

“We are all worthy of one another.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.”
― Christina Stead, Miss Herbert (the suburban wife)

“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.”
― Serbian Proverb

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
― Jose Rizal

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
― Joni Mitchell

“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.”
― Tess Gallagher

“and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
― E.E. Cummings

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
― Walter Kirn, Mission to America

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao