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#1

“I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder if that means I am entirely broken, or if those are the things that have been keeping me whole.”
― Nicole Lyons

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#2

“She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: inspirational, motivational, rise, rise-quotes, rise-up, strong-women

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#3

“I promised to touch your soul. I never said it would be painless.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: pa, poetry, quotes, soul-quotes

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#4

“If I could claw the words out of the back of my throat and give them, dripping of me, to you, we would talk of sticky hands, and the messes they make.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: ignored, poetry, poetry-quotes

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#5

“I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: art, beautiful-quotes, beautiful-words, hope, leave-a-footprint, leave-a-legacy, leave-behind, love, love-me, love-quotes, love-you, passion, poetry, poetry-in-motion, poetry-quotes, poets-on-poetry, quote, quote-of-all-times, quote-of-the-day, quote-of-the-month, quote-of-the-week, soul, when-i-am-gone, word-porn, writers-on-writing, writers-quotes

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#6

“They say she is too much to handle, but when the moon pulls the tide and the wolves howl her name, blessed are the ones who have been taken by her wild.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: moon-child, moon-quotes, nicole-lyons, nicole-lyons-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, quote-of-the-day, wild

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#7

“She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: beautiful-quotes, dance, dance-quotes, dancing, gypsy, gypsy-quotes, love, love-quotes, lovers, passion, poetry, poetry-quotes, quote-of-the-day, quotes, strong-women, wildfire

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#8

“And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: lessons-learned, life, life-quotes, love, love-quotes, nicole-lyons, nicole-lyons-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotations, poetry-quotes, quote-of-the-day, truth

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#9

“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.”
― Nicole Lyons, Hush

tags: bipolar-disorder, bipolar-quotes, chaos, creativity, depression-quotes, life, life-quotes, madness, madness-and-sanity, manic-depression, mental-health-awareness, mental-health-quotes, mental-illness, mental-illness-quotes, mind, mindfulness, mood-disorders, paranoia, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes-about-life, racing-thoughts, self-deception, self-destruction, stigma, stillness-of-the-mind, suicidal-ideation, suicidal-thoughts

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#10

“I hold you in the safest place I keep. Somewhere between memories and scars.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: holding-on, love, love-quotes, memories, nicole-lyons, popular-quotes, quote, quote-of-the-day, scars, word-porn

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#11

“I have licked the fire and danced in the ashes of every bridge I ever burned. I fear no hell from you.”
― Nicole Lyons, Hush

tags: life, life-lessons, life-quotes, motivation, motivational, nicole-lyons, passion, poetry-is-not-dead, poetry-quotes, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, strength, strong, strong-women, truth, unafraid

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#12

“So it began, the living escape. The writer’s life. Limits left at the door, with muddy boots, grace and undiscovered fantastical, far away lands. Intrigue exists, beyond the confines of four, suffocating walls. The flawed, vulnerable, messy, selfish heroine makes human mistakes, yet we forgive her. We recognize the broken pieces in ourselves, her honesty forces a hard look in the mirror. Characters become real, we picture them with our own eyes, hear their voices, empathize with their story. We root them on. When the writer does their job well, we love them, never wanting to say good-bye.”
― Jacqueline Cioffa, The Vast Landscape

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#13

“We are all disabled, broken parts, lost individuals, trying to find our way. Truth is what you know, here and happening now. There is only love and love is the bravest character of all.”
― Jacqueline Cioffa, Georgia Pine

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#14

“Some of us are born plain unlucky, helplessly watching others sail through. When tragedy strikes, those ‘lucky bastards’ won’t have a fucking clue what to do, paralyzed by fear.”
― Jacqueline Cioffa, The Vast Landscape

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#15

“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#16

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

tags: mortality

1611 likes

#17

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
― Voltaire

tags: guilt

1286 likes

#18

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
― Voltaire

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#19

“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

tags: condemnation, guilt, innocence, judgment, justice, mercy, reasonable-doubt, verdict

777 likes

#20

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
― Voltaire

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#21

“Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.”
― Voltaire

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#22

“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. —Voltaire”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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#23

“Listen to what your heart pumps for. It beats for what it loves.”
― N.R. Hart, Poetry and Pearls

tags: nrhart-love-heart

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#24

“Only love can save us.”
― N.R. Hart, Poetry and Pearls

tags: nrhart-love-heart

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#25

“I will write you into my forever.”
― N.R. Hart, Poetry and Pearls

tags: nrhart-writing-souls

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#26

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

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#27

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

13397 likes

#28

“The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: emotion, feelings, pain

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#29

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: activism, service

3616 likes

#30

“Girls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.”
― Nikita Gill

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