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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain
    3752 likes

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    John Lennon
    “One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, emotions, hypocrisy, pain, suffering
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: loneliness, misattributed
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    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
    tags: irony, life, loneliness
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    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share
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  • #9
    George R.R. Martin
    “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: friendship, loneliness
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  • #10
    Mother Teresa
    “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: loneliness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “We live as we dream--alone....”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: dream, loneliness
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: desire, loneliness, love, lust, passion, sex
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: loneliness
    1590 likes

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    Audrey Hepburn
    “When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: aloneness, loneliness
    1459 likes

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
    tags: melancholy
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
    5253 likes

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  • #17
    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    ― Anita Desai
    tags: travel
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    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: life, travel
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    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
    ― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
    tags: sun-drenched, travel
    1738 likes

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  • #20
    Pascal Mercier
    “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
    ― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
    tags: home, identity, leaving, life, moving-on, past, travel
    1368 likes

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  • #21
    Judith Thurman
    “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”
    ― Judith Thurman
    tags: dreamer, explore, travel
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  • #22
    Erol Ozan
    “Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.”
    ― Erol Ozan
    tags: beauty, cars, decisions, discovery, driving, fork, highway, journey, journey-of-life, life, life-lessons, lost, lostness, road, road-trip, roads, route, route-66, transportation, travel, voyage
    618 likes



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