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#1

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

tags: poetry

1795 likes

#2

“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

tags: introversion, psychology, sociology

1844 likes

#3

“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”
― D.W. Winnicott

tags: childhood, games, hidden-self, hide-and-seek, hiding, introversion, life, loneliness, self, solitude

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#4

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

tags: extroversion, extrovert, introversion, introvert

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#5

“Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: absorbent, ambivert, assumption, awareness, bias, cool, crazy, culture, discernment, down-to-earth, extrovert, friendly, intelligent, introversion, introvert, judgment, knowledge, learned, loner, misunderstood, mysterious, normal, observation, odd, prejudgment, prudence, psychology, quiet-people, reality, reflection, shy, silence, social, social-awareness, strange, thinking, underestimated, understanding, weird, wisdom

247 likes

#6

“I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: chanel, designer, down-to-earth, earth, fashion, funny, humor, karl-lagerfeld, label, labeling, quote, quotes

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#7

“Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: adult, adulthood, background, bad-boys, callow, cockiness, corruption, disrespect, down-to-earth, emptiness, empty, enlightened, enlightenment, experience, gentleman, gentlemen, humility, immaturity, insensitive, insensitivity, ladies, lady, madness, maturity, modesty, option, puberty, puerile, reckless, rude, rudeness, ruthless, sensibility, sensible, teen, teenagers, unconscious, vanity, young, young-people, youth

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#8

“Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.”
― Ashish Patel

tags: attitude, attitude-toward-life, behavior, down-to-earth, extraordinary, humbleness, motivational, success, successful-living, worthiness

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#9

“the more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

tags: down-to-earth, greatness, greatness-quotes, humility-in-greatness, humility-quotes, life, living-in-humility, pride, psyche, self-control

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#10

“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

165219 likes

#11

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

128898 likes

#12

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127101 likes

#13

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

84286 likes

#14

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

78309 likes

#15

“There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

tags: mortal-instruments, romance, teen-fantasy

20412 likes

#16

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern

tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words

20038 likes

#17

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

tags: love, relationships, romance

12909 likes

#18

“You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
― Richelle Mead, Frostbite

9761 likes

#19

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

9706 likes

#20

“How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

tags: affairs, breakup, life, love, women

1391 likes

#21

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

tags: affair, assurance, autonomy, believe-in-yourself, breakup, composure, detachment, development, disappearance, distance, escape, fade, freedom, hide, hideout, impression, independence, leg-pulling, let-go, letting-go, liberty, love, michael-bassey-johnson, neutrality, out-of-view, poise, prove, respect, self-control, self-reliance, self-rule, separation, single, sovereignty, survival, test, unconventional, unconventionality, vanish

1330 likes

#22

“i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone”
― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

tags: absence, alone, breakup, broken, day, felt, forgive, gone, her, i, i-love-you, in, it, know, like, loneliness, lonely, mirror, miss, mouth, need, no, one, run, sad, separated, sorry, teeth, the, they, to, up, waking, want, was, were, with, wouldn-t, you, your

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#23

“Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?”
― Allyson Braithwaite Condie, First Day

tags: allyson-braithwaite-condie, box, breakup, church, day, first, humor, lockup, love, memories, novel, pain, religion, romance

1012 likes

#24

“Sometimes you want to say, “I love you, but…”
Yet the “but” takes away the ‘I love you’. In love their are no ‘buts’ or ‘if’s’ or ‘when’. It’s just there, and always. No beginning, no end. It’s the condition-less state of the heart. Not a feeling that comes and goes at the whim of the emotions. It is there in our heart, a part of our heart…eventually grafting itself into each limb and cell of our bodies. Love changes our brain, the way we move and talk. Love lives in our spirit and graces us with its presence each day, until death.

To say “I love you, but….” is to say, “I did not love you at all”.

I say this to you now: I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.”
― Jamie Weise

tags: breakup, breakups, friendship, i-love-him, i-love-you, jamie-weise, love, love-affair, love-and-romance, love-story, lovers, passion, passions, unconditional

997 likes

#25

“Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

tags: breakup, sad-love, this-lullaby

893 likes

#26

“One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, emotions, hypocrisy, pain, suffering

3415 likes

#27

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”
― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

tags: at-first-sight, emotions, healing, heartbreak, love, nicholas, nicholas-sparks, sparks

2933 likes

#28

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20726 likes