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#1

“Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

tags: desire, fidelity

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#2

“Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.”
― Mark Epstein, Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy

tags: buddhism, desire, psychology, relationships, sexuality, spirituality, tantra

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#3

“Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened- good, bad, or anywhere in between- it was always, if nothing else, all your own.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

tags: independence, self-reliance, solitude

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#4

“Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: alone, companionship, extroversion, fear, introversion, loneliness, shyness, solitude

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#5

“I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook

tags: contradiction, longing, love, solitude

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#6

“The only selfish life is a timid one.”
― jeanette winterson, The PowerBook

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#7

“sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow

tags: inspirational, lessons, life

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#8

“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
― John Irving, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

tags: mistakes, perspective, revelation, self-discovery

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#9

“I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It's from those circumstances that a person's attitude is affected followed by weakening of character. Not the reverse. If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#10

“When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself”
― Earl Nightingale

tags: critical, criticize, judge, judgement, judgemental

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#11

“It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: blessings, broken-heart, compassion, inspirational, kindness, love, true-love

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#12

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

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#13

“You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

tags: control, emotion, feel, feelings, madness, nightmares, running-away

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#14

“Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell”
― Christopher Moore

tags: love

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#15

“A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: cherishing, faith, heartwarming, hope, inspirational, learning, letting-go, life, life-and-learning, life-and-living, life-lessons, stars, treasure

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#16

“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: distance, love

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#17

“It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: guarantees, hope, possibility

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#18

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, art

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#19

“Get a grip on your heart and pride, girl. Nobody has or ever will give a damn whether you're happy or not.”
― Sandy Blair, A Man In A Kilt

tags: grip, happy, heart

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#20

“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

tags: disappointment, failure, moving-on

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#21

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

tags: disappointment, life, mistakes

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#22

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: inspirational

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#23

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: forgetting, hope, love, pain, suffering, waiting

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#24

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: love

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#25

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: life

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#26

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

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#27

“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: love

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#28

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

tags: experience

1894 likes

#29

“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
― Paulo Coelho

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#30

“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

tags: love

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