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“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: inspirational, the-notebook

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#2

“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: change, disappointment, night, time

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#3

“But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.”
― R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet

tags: courage, disappointment, relatable

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#4

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom

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#5

“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow to the Sea

tags: expectations, powerful, silence

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#6

“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: perception, silence

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#7

“I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

tags: abandoned, alone, cutting, left, numb, pain, sadness

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#8

“I love him, Melanie. I love him He's not just a star, he's the whole fucking sky to me. He's the sun and every planet in this galaxy.”
― Katy Evans, Real

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#9

“Don't hurt someone who cares about you like that. You're not the only person in the world who's ever been hurt. Don't be cruel. Don't go breaking someone else's heart in the hope that you'll feel better. Becaues you won't.”
― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow to the Sea

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#10

“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”
― Goi Nasu

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#11

“You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

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#12

“It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: friends, friendship, growth, letting-go, letting-go-of-negative-people, loving-yourself, moving-on, negative-people, positive-thinking, seasonal-friendships, seasons, seasons-of-life, toxic-friends, true-friends

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#13

“Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: being-single, confidence, embracing-your-singleness, holding-out-for-the-best, independence, life, live-life-on-your-own-terms, living-in-the-moment, loving-yourself, no-apologies, not-settling, opportunity, positive-thinking, single, single-journey, single-life, single-woman, singleness, the-single-woman

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#14

“Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: art, battle, belief, conversation, creativity, expression, opinions, self-expression, speech, speechless

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#15

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational

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#16

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: selflessness

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#17

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

tags: poetry

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#18

“You never know when, and you never know who, but someday a stranger will burst through the door of your life and transform it utterly. The world will be turned upside down, and you will be happier for it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Nothing but Shadows

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#19

“You need to be content with small steps. That's all life is. Small steps that you take every day so when you look back down the road it all adds up and you know you covered some distance. It took me a long time to accept that, but it's true. You need to have patience."",”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

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#20

“Don't worry about hurting me, if that's what you're afraid of. I want to get hurt. At least I´ll feel something for a change.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

tags: hurting, love, relationships

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#21

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

tags: knowledge

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#22

“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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#23

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

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#24

“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: life, mindfulness, present

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#25

“The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.”
― Louis L'Amour

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#26

“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

tags: choice

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#27

“He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious. ”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

tags: reflective

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#28

“Everything has to come to an end, sometime.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

tags: endings, logic

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#29

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

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#30

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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