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#1

“To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.”
― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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#2

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: change, life, parting, romantics

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#3

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: change

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#4

“Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

tags: crazy-hair, first-love, morning

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#5

“Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all that we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch, we are free... An inch; it is small, and it is fragile, and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away; we must never let them take it from us.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

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#6

“Pandora opened the box with the new high-heels, put them on and went out to town.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

tags: aphorism, attractive, box-of-shoes, fashion, fashionable, fashionable-ideas, femme-fatale, girls, go-out, gracious, have-fun, high-heels, love, man, men, pandora, pandora-s-box, passion, posh, put-on, quote, saying, sexy, shoes, town, trouble, woman, women

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#7

“Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand."
"Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

tags: education, humor

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#8

“I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is grief and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

tags: eragon, self-determination

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#9

“Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

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#10

“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

tags: depressed, depression, fear, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, recovery, recovery-quotes, shame, stigma, stigmatized, survivors

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#11

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: advice, depression, friendship, life, self-help

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#12

“When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

tags: goodbyes, long-distance

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#13

“Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.”
― Joyce Rachelle

tags: absence, being-apart, loneliness, long-distance, missing-someone, relationships, staying-together

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#14

“Hoti rahengi mulaaqatein tumse
Nigaaho se durr ho dil se nahi”
― Wajid Shaikh, Sukoon

tags: lob, long-distance, quotes, sukoon, wajid-shaikh

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#15

“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.”
― Diana Cortes

tags: friendship, long-distance

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#16

“My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can keep us if we ever lose that.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

tags: page-388

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#17

“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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#18

“It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: illumination, life, past

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#19

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

tags: benjamin-button, change, courage, time

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#20

“The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

tags: cold, desolation, jaded, lonley, sad-truth, winter

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#21

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: dreaming, dreams, excitement, imagination, inspirational, planning, possibility

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#22

“I'll always pay you for your work. Artists should be paid, especially by friends.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Together We Burn

tags: friendships, respect, supporting-others

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#23

“...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.”
― Emm Cole, The Short Life of Sparrows

tags: anguish, conscience, good-versus-evil, goodness, hurt, inner-demons, kindness, light-and-dark, love, monsters, monsters-within, peace, revenge, soul-searching, souls, treatment-of-others, wounded

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#24

“Don't let your inner demons
Take the best of your creeds.
If God gives you lemons,
You must plant the seeds.

Do not be so self-absorbed
That you can't see the tree.
If you succumb to the morbid
You bury a chance to be free.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

tags: happenings, happiness, inner-demons, lemon, plant, seeds, tree, vision

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#25

“She had tried to lock her sins up in the attic of her psyche as if they were a mystical portrait forced to bear the demonic scars upon her soul. But her actions had caught up to her at last, coming for their pound of flesh, and she could feel the burn of her transgressions on her skin like a half-healed tattoo.”
― Nenia Campbell, Escape

tags: angst, dark, demons, hiding, inner-demons, pain, scars, sins

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