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  • #1
    Anaïs Nin
    “There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
    Anais Nin

  • #2
    Anaïs Nin
    “Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to be. But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment man rests inside of her.”
    Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

  • #3
    Anaïs Nin
    “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
    Anais Nin

  • #4
    Shel Silverstein
    “​Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child,
    Listen to the DON'TS
    Listen to the SHOULDN'TS
    The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
    Listen to the NEVER HAVES
    Then listen close to me—
    Anything can happen, child,
    ANYTHING can be.”
    Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

  • #5
    Robert Jordan
    “He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
    Robert Jordan, New Spring

  • #6
    Lewis Carroll
    “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #7
    Lewis Carroll
    “I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #8
    Lewis Carroll
    “I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #9
    Lewis Carroll
    “Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #10
    Lewis Carroll
    “‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #11
    Shel Silverstein
    “ALICE
    She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME
    And she grew so tall,
    She ate from a plate called TASTE ME
    And down she shrank so small.
    And so she changed, while other folks
    Never tried nothin' at all.”
    Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

  • #12
    Raven Gregory
    “...Is Wonderland really a wonder...when you have nowhere to land?”
    Raven Gregory, Grimm Fairy Tales: Return to Wonderland

  • #13
    Melanie Benjamin
    “Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.”
    Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been

  • #14
    Melanie Benjamin
    “Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had denied him his; he had denied me mine.”
    Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been

  • #15
    “Mad Matter: "Have I gone mad?"
    Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
    Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton

  • #16
    Lewis Carroll
    “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
    "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
    "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
    "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #17
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #18
    Lewis Carroll
    “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #19
    Lewis Carroll
    “Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"

    Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: and Through The Looking Glass

  • #20
    Lewis Carroll
    “Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
    "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
    "You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
    "Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #21
    Truman Capote
    “Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky."
    "She's drunk," Joe Bell informed me.
    "Moderately," Holly confessed....Holly lifted her martini. "Let's wish the Doc luck, too," she said, touching her glass against mine. "Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc -- it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.”
    Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

  • #22
    Truman Capote
    “You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
    Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

  • #23
    Truman Capote
    “I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.”
    Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories

  • #24
    Truman Capote
    “Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.”
    Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

  • #25
    Truman Capote
    “You’re wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you’re right. She isn’t a phony because she’s a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes. You can’t talk her out of it.”
    Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

  • #26
    Bryant McGill
    “Inside of every good person there is also something very wild.”
    Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

  • #27
    Sean Covey
    “Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”
    Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

  • #28
    Sean Covey
    “Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?”
    Sean Covey

  • #29
    Sean Covey
    “I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself”
    Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

  • #30
    Sean Covey
    “A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.”
    Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide



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