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  • #1
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: today, work, yesterday
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    Markus Zusak
    “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: pain, sadness, stoicism
    4159 likes

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  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
    9774 likes

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  • #4
    Charles Baudelaire
    “La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

    ("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
    tags: deception, devil, existence, reality, ruse, ruses, sleight-of-hand, tricks
    1109 likes

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  • #5
    A.A. Milne
    “His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Once on a Time
    tags: face, faces, knowing, meetings
    91 likes

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  • #6
    Edward Gorey
    “The helpful thought for which you look
    Is written somewhere in a book.”
    ― Edward Gorey
    3195 likes

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  • #7
    Virginia Woolf
    “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
    tags: melancholy, night, sad, winter
    997 likes

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  • #8
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: grief, grief-inspirational, heartbreak, life, life-lessons, love, love-hurts, love-story, price-of-love, prices, romance, sad, sad-but-true, sadness, true-love
    2523 likes

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  • #9
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: sad
    311 likes

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  • #10
    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
    11062 likes

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  • #11
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
    tags: being-left, love, time, waiting
    1993 likes

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  • #12
    Antonio Machado
    “Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.”
    ― Antonio Machado
    tags: dream, dreaming, dreams, food-for-thought, guessing, life, living, philosophy
    126 likes

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  • #13
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “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
    88103 likes

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  • #14
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
    74335 likes

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  • #15
    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
    23155 likes

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  • #16
    “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
    ― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
    tags: dreams, music
    2977 likes

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  • #17
    Heinrich Heine
    “Where words leave off, music begins.”
    ― Heinrich Heine
    tags: music, power-of-music
    2847 likes

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  • #18
    Eric Hoffer
    “Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
    tags: disappointment
    606 likes

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  • #19
    Jess C. Scott
    “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
    20037 likes

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  • #20
    Dr. Seuss
    “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
    127103 likes

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  • #21
    Robin Williams
    “Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.”
    ― Robin Williams
    832 likes

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  • #22
    Shannon L. Alder
    “A coward talks to everyone but YOU.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: anxiety, cheats, competition, coward, defaming, evil-women, fake-christians, false-information, fear, games, gossips, heartless, insecure-women, jealous-women, jealousy, liars, low-self-esteem, paranoid-men, rumors, sisterinlaws, sisters, slander, stalkers, weak
    335 likes

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  • #23
    “When life crumbles to pieces, glue doesn't always fix it.”
    ― Korey Miracle
    tags: apart, falling, falling-apart, glue, life, scary-reality
    13 likes

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  • #24
    “When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen:

    There will be something solid for you to stand upon, or, you will be taught to fly.”
    ― Patrick Overton, The Leaning Tree
    tags: darkness, faith, risk, unknown
    424 likes

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  • #25
    Robert Fanney
    “A song she heard
    Of cold that gathers
    Like winter's tongue
    Among the shadows
    It rose like blackness
    In the sky
    That on volcano's
    Vomit rise
    A Stone of ruin
    From burn to chill
    Like black moonrise
    Her voice fell still...”
    ― Robert Fanney
    tags: blackness, elf, elves, fantasy, luthiel, magic, moon, music, shadow, song, summer, volcano, winter
    210 likes

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  • #26
    Ben Aaronovitch
    “In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes
    tags: cold, good-book, winter
    295 likes

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  • #27
    Pablo Neruda
    “I want to see the thirst
    inside the syllables
    I want to touch the fire
    in the sound:
    I want to feel the darkness
    of the cry. I want
    words as rough
    as virgin rocks.” - Verb.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: cry, darkness, rough, syllables, touch, verb, words
    141 likes

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  • #28
    Randy Pausch
    “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: adversity, hard-times, inspiration
    909 likes



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