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    Derek Walcott
    “The time will come
    when, with elation,
    you will greet yourself arriving
    at your own door, in your own mirror,
    and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
    ― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Robin Sharma
    “never overlook the power of simplicity”
    ― Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny
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    Robin Sharma
    “… saying that you don’t have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying you don’t have time to stop for gas because you’re too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you.” - The Monk who sold his Ferrari”
    ― Robin Sharma
    tags: inspirational
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    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
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    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: friendship
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    Arundhati Roy
    “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: words
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    Arundhati Roy
    “And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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    Arundhati Roy
    “If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: dreaming, happyiness
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    Arundhati Roy
    “He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: love
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    Arundhati Roy
    “She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: beautiful, flowers, midnight
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    Arundhati Roy
    “Some things come with their own punishments.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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    Arundhati Roy
    “D’you know what happens when you hurt people?’ Ammu said. ‘When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: comfort, healing, loneliness
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    Veronica Roth
    “Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: comfort
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    Alan Moore
    “Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: on-fiction, parables, storytelling
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    Alan Moore
    “Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
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    Alan Moore
    “Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: favourite-quote, inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    Emilie Autumn
    “You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
    ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
    tags: pain
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    Jodi Picoult
    “The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: inspirational, love, pain
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The cure for pain is in the pain.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: pain
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    Veronica Roth
    “I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
    tags: betrayal, hurt, pain, trust
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    T.H. White
    “She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.”
    ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
    tags: heartbreak, longing, love, pain, sorrow, unrequited-love
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
    tags: pain, voice
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    Paulo Coelho
    “We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
    tags: judge, life, pain, renunciation
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  • #30
    “You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.”
    ― Rachel Ward, Numbers
    tags: end, gone, goodbye, leaving, lost, love, pain
    478 likes



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