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#1

“Name one hero who was happy."
I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.
"You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward.
"I can't."
"I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret."
"Tell me." I loved it when he was like this.
"I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it."
"Why me?"
"Because you're the reason. Swear it."
"I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.
"I swear it," he echoed.
We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.
"I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: fame, happiness, heroes, love, mythology, oaths

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#2

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

tags: happiness, love

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#3

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: happiness

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#4

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

tags: courage, happiness, work

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#5

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: happiness, inspiration, life

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#6

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#7

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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#8

“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

tags: inspirational-quotes, mara-dyer, reality, truth

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#9

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: humanity, kindness, relationships

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#10

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

tags: love, pain, relationships, self

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#11

“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: communication, inspirational, philosophy

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#12

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: communication, misattributed, misunderstanding

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#13

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
― Henry Winkler

tags: communication, relationships

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#14

“It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: communication, disagreement, expression, expressions, humanity, humble, humility, ideas, judgement, judgmental, open-mind, open-mindedness, opinion, opinions, recognition, respect, talent, thought, thoughts, writing

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#15

“Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: communication, miscommunication

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#16

“Self-consciousness kills communication.”
― Rick Steves

tags: advice, communication, confidence, self-consciousness, speech, travel

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#17

“I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”
― Clint Eastwood

tags: insecurity, prejudice

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#18

“Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

tags: insecurity, love, marriage

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#19

“I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

tags: mortified, story, trapped

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#20

“It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade

tags: agree, altair, altaïr, assassin-s-creed, believe, disagree, education, know, knowledge, mind, no-matter, oliver-bowden, people, punih, quote, right, smart, thinking, true, wisdom

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#21

“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”
― Martha Graham

tags: image, perception, perspective

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#22

“conditioned me to split my voice in two
one to keep to myself
the other to appease you”
― Laura Gentile, coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry

tags: death, gaslighting, grief, intimidation, psychological-abuse, psychological-violence, sexual-abuse, sexualisation, trauma, violence

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#23

“I felt violated, yet I had no voice, no ability to express that. I was conditioned to believe any boundary I wanted was a betrayal of her, so I stayed silent. Cooperative.”
― Jennette McCurdy

tags: gaslighting, manipulation-of-others

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#24

“Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.” (p.97)”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

tags: avoidance, body, feelings, numb, numbness, sense-of-safety, trauma, traumatic, traumatized

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#25

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

tags: control, domination, life, love, relationships

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#26

“Imagine the infant who one day cries and gets fed, and the next day cries and goes hungry. One day smiles and is kissed and hugged. The next day smiles and is ignored. This is what psychologists called 'preoccupied or unresolved attachment' with the primary caregiver--usually the mother. There was love one minute and disdain the next. Affection that was given in abundance for no reason and then taken away without cause. The child has no ability to predict or influence the behavior of the parent. The narcissist loves a child only as an extension of herself at first, and then as a loyal subject. So she will tend to the child only when it makes her feel good.”
― Wendy Walker, Emma in the Night

tags: child-abuse, emotional-abuse, narcissism, narcissist, trauma

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#27

“Gaslighting is an attempt to change the truth.”
― Tracy Malone

tags: abuse, gaslight, gaslighting, mental-abuse, narcissism, narcissist, narcissist-abuse, physical-abuse, ptsd, ptsd-quotes

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#28

“Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: assuming, assumptions, hate, hurt, offense

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#29

“You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

tags: assumptions, relationship

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#30

“Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”
― Madeline L'Engle

tags: abuse-of-authority, abuse-of-power, autonomy, choice, control, freedom-of-choice, manipulation, oppression, puppet

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