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#1

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: love

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“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

tags: fear, future, gratitude, love, past, present

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#3

“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, destiny, fate, life

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#4

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: destiny

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#5

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: destiny, self-determination

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#6

“Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: destiny, inspiration

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#7

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: satisfaction, self-determination

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#8

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: adversity, contrast

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#9

“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
― Terry Goodkind

tags: adversity, sword, truth

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#10

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: achievement, adversity, easy, effort, envy, lives

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#11

“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
― edwin louis cole

tags: adversity, drowning, survival

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#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

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#13

“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

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#14

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

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#15

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

tags: love

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#16

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: advice, apology

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#17

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#18

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#19

“Man is the cruelest animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man

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#20

“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#21

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#22

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Neitzsche

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#23

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Freidrich Neitzsche

tags: philosophy, women

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#24

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: inspirational

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#25

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
― Nietzsche

tags: suicide

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#26

“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#27

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: connection, invisibility, thread, ties

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#28

“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: possibility, profundity, thought

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#29

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: desire, love

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#30

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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