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“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
― Wendell Berry

tags: inspiration

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#2

“Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#3

“No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon

tags: change, marriage, patterns

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#4

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: logic, people, prejudice, pride, relationships, vanity

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#5

“Sunshine all the time makes a desert.”
― Arab proverb

tags: adversity, challenges, development, growth, motivational, obstacles

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#6

“and i said to my body. softly. ‘i want to be your friend.’ it took a long breath. and replied ‘i have been waiting my whole life for this.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

tags: body-positivity, inspirational, prose-poetry

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#7

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: planning, preparation

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#8

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Vivian Greene

tags: dance, life, rain, storm

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#9

“Failure is not an end-it is the means to an end. Study your failures, for they are the scrambled secrets of success.”
― Romina Russell, Wandering Star

tags: inspirational

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#10

“I am what I am, and that's all that I am.”
― Popeye

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#11

“I began to trust the world again, not to give me what I wanted, for I saw that it could not be trusted to do that, but to give unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want.”
― Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

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#12

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: change, mind, nietzsche

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#13

“I mean, I hope you're happy,
But the sky is still the sky without you,
And I'm not surprised by that anymore.”
― Caitlyn Siehl

tags: love

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#14

“For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to;”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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#15

“When she saw how they worked, not on their own but two by two, working their trunks together to tie a knot, she realized why they'd been so astonished by her hands, because of course she could tie knots on her own. At first she felt that this gave an advantage--she needed no one else-- and then she realized how it cut her off from others. Perhaps all human beings were like that.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

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#16

“Good and Evil are names for what people do, not for what they are...stopped believing there was a power of good and evil. That they were outside of us...People are too complicated for labels.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

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#17

“Nobody ever thinks of himself as a villain, does he? Even monsters hold high opinions of themselves.”
― Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

tags: monsters

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#18

“Grief is personal. It isn't something you can share like a box of chocolates. It's yours and yours alone, a spiked steel ball chained to your ankle, a coat of nails around your shoulders, a crown of thorns. No one else can feely your pain. They cannot walk in your shoes because your shoes are full with broken glass and every time you take a step forward, it rips your soles to bloody shreds. Grief is the worst kind of torture and it never ends. You have dibs on that dungeon for the rest of your life.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place

tags: horror, mystery

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“Each person's grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed. That doesn't mean needing someone to try to lessen it or reframe it for them. The need is for someone to be fully present to the magnitude of their loss without trying to point out the silver lining.”
― David Kessler, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

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“Grieving is a protective process. It’s an evolutionary adaptation to help us survive in the face of emotional trauma.”
― Lisa M. Shulman, Before and After Loss: A Neurologist's Perspective on Loss, Grief, and Our Brain

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#21

“People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: blaming, blaming-others, brokenness, disorders, hatred, high-standards, hypocrisy, ignoring, illness, issues, judgement, judging-others, learning, narcissistic, no-conscience, no-filter, paranoia, poor-character, problems, realization, respecting-others, self-absorbed, self-abuse, self-realization, trust, trustworthy

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#22

“Mother Nature is a bitch.”
― Greg Bear, Darwin's Children

tags: science-fiction

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#23

“Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever.”
― Greg Bear, Blood Music

tags: science-fiction

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#24

“Eventually, all our graves go unattended.”
― Conan O'Brien

tags: death, nihilism, nothing-matters, remembered

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#25

“You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn't change his judgment.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

tags: psychology

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#26

“People change, but you can't change people.”
― Kelsey Hartwell, 11 Paper Hearts

tags: heart, truth, wise-words

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#27

“I don’t have any knack for making people cry, Ela,’ he answered softly. His voice was a caress. No, stronger, it was like a hand gripping her hand, holding her, steadying her. ‘Telling the truth makes you cry.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

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#28

“I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her.”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

tags: love, miro

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#29

“But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.”
― Susan Fletcher, The Highland Witch

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#30

“The Highland way says it's who you say you love and who you serve, which is of worth. Not some title that is passed down upon you by tradition. That's the English way, and the Lowland way--but who can be born a nobleman? Nobility is earned... 'Tis our choices that make us.”
― Susan Fletcher, Corrag

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