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#1

“In high school, I played a lot of Dungeons and Dragons. (You may not have guessed this botanist/mechanical engineer was a bit of a nerd in high school, but indeed I was.) In the game I played a cleric. One of the magic spells I could cast was “Create Water.” I always thought it was a really stupid spell, and I never used it. Boy, what I wouldn’t give to be able to do that in real life right now.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

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#2

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#3

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#4

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

tags: chocolate, friendship

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#5

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

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#6

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

tags: friendship

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#7

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship, inspirational

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#8

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

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#9

“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: fiction, gay-men, homosexuality, lgbt-literature, love, maurice-novel

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#10

“Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: bisexual, lgbt, sexuality

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#11

“I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

tags: cherylrainfield, cutting, healing, lgbt, lgbtq, scars, selfharm, selfmutilation, sexualabuse, survivor, ya, yalit

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#12

“Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.”
― DaShanne Stokes

tags: bias, biases, civil-rights, civil-rights-movement, discriminating, discrimination, get-involved, human-rights, human-rights-abuse, human-rights-day, human-rights-violations, lgbt, lgbt-quotes, lgbt-rights, prejudice, prejudices, race-and-racism-in-america, race-relations, racism, racism-in-america, racism-quotes, rights, sexism, sexism-quotes, take-action

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#13

“I am small.

So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.”
― C. Kennedy, Slaying Isidore's Dragons

tags: abuse, abuse-recovery, abuse-survivors, hope, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtqia, love, psychology, self-esteem, triumph

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#14

“You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.”
― DaShanne Stokes

tags: civil-rights, civil-rights-movement, civil-rights-quotes, discriminating, discrimination, human-rights, human-rights-violations, lgbt, lgbt-rights, lgbtq, lgbtqia, prejudice, prejudices, privilege, privileged, privileges, race, racism, racist, rights

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#15

“If you are in the closet and fall in love with someone of the same gender, it doesn't automatically remove the shame and fear that's kept you locked away. The love you are experiencing encourages you to face the reality that this is who you really are and also has the power to set you free. The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability. Love, the most powerful of human emotions, is calling you to freedom and wholeness.”
― Anthony Venn-Brown, A Life of Unlearning - a journey to find the truth

tags: coming-out, coming-out-of-the-closet, gay, lesbian, lgbt

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#16

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#17

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humour

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#18

“They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t be beautiful. Be angry, be intelligent, be witty, be klutzy, be interesting, be funny, be adventurous, be crazy, be talented - there are an eternity of other things to be other than beautiful. And what is beautiful anyway but a set of letters strung together to make a word? Be your own definition of amazing, always. That is so much more important than anything beautiful, ever.”
― Nikita Gill

tags: don-t-be-beautiful

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#19

“Tell your daughters how you love your body.
Tell them how they must love theirs.

Tell them to be proud of every bit of themselves—
from their tiger stripes to the soft flesh of their thighs,
whether there is a little of them or a lot,
whether freckles cover their face or not,
whether their curves are plentiful or slim,
whether their hair is thick, curly, straight, long or short.

Tell them how they inherited
their ancestors, souls in their smiles,
that their eyes carry countries
that breathed life into history,
that the swing of their hips
does not determine their destiny.

Tell them never to listen when bodies are critiqued.
Tell them every woman’s body is beautiful
because every woman’s soul is unique.”
― Nikita Gill, The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom

tags: beauty, self-love

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#20

“I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most about Marlowe, just so I can write you a poem worthy of Shakespeare. I've made books my lovers, hours my enemies and you the only story.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Body is an Ocean: Love and Other Experiments

tags: books, bookworm, bookworm-problems, library, literature, love, marlowe, poetry, reading, shakespeare

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#21

“... I am done being in love with you."
"Why?"
"I am in love with someone else. Someone who needs it more than you."
"Who?"
"Me.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Body is an Ocean: Love and Other Experiments

tags: love, loving-yourself, self-confidence, worth

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#22

“The thing I admire most
about you
is no matter how hard,
or how much the world
has tried to
beat you,
break you,
destroy you,
and throw you to the wolves
you are still here,
turning all your pain
all your suffering
into armor,
into determination,
into weapons
and earning the respect
of that same pack of wolves
that were meant to rip you
limb from limb.”
― Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty

tags: poetry

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#23

“As leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death too can be a beautiful thing.”
― Nikita Gill

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#24

“Teach your daughters their battle cries are needed far more than their silence and hear them deafen the world with their fearlessness.”
― Nikita Gill

tags: daughters, feminism

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#25

“Persephone, grant me the foresight to know when I must let go my old life to start anew.

Artemis, grant me the strength of your spine when you helped deliver Apollo, your own twin.

Athena, grant me the solidarity in your sinews for which you were born in all of your armour.

Aphrodite, grant me the kind of heart that always follows my passions true.

Andromeda grant me the wish to never fall out of love with the night sky or the glisten of it’s stars.

And Hera, grant me your fury, so I can remind my enemies I am not the weakness they perceive, I am the oncoming storm, I am war.”
― Nikita Gill

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#26

“Everything that terrifies you
these monsters
that keeps you up at night
that torment you
that make you feel small
breakable
unable to breathe
like you should not
exist at all,
you defeat them everyday
just by being alive,
this on its own
proves that you are
enough,
and you already have
everything you need
to survive.”
― Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty

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#27

“Sometimes you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling. You just feel it in a way that makes you tired to your very bones.”
― Nikita Gill

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#28

“My darling, he is just a boy. How can he possibly begin to appreciate the constellations you leave in your wake, or the stardust in your bones, when he has yet to realize just what it means to be in love with a girl like you?”
― Nikita Gill

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#29

“Survival

Everyone you love
is capable of doing
great and terrible things
things you never
thought they could do
when they are clawing,
panicking,
breaking
to survive.
Remember this
when you watch them
at their very worst moments,
And forgive them
their survival too.”
― Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty

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#30

“The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War

tags: pacifism, peace, war

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