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#1

“It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

tags: death, dying, fear

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#2

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: corruption, fear, life, power

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#3

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

tags: communication, fear

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#4

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

tags: afraid, fear, grief, loneliness, loss, mourning, restlessness

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#5

“Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: inspirational, integrity, motivational, what-is-right

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#6

“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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#7

“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth

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#8

“Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: inspirational

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#9

“I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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#10

“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: ageing, death, memories, passage-of-time

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#11

“Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

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#12

“Things have a mind of its own; it’s simply the matter of waking up their souls.” – Melquiades”
― Gabriel García Márquez

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#13

“She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: 100-years-of-solitude, gabriel-garcía-márquez, solitude

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#14

“The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez

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#15

“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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#16

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

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#17

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

tags: desire, disatisfaction, life

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#18

“My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.”
― Dora J. Arod, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

tags: absurd, desire, flavor, food, funny, humor, love, love-quotes, meatloaf, wish, word-junkies

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#19

“I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.”
― Ann Aguirre, Doubleblind

tags: desire, love

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#20

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?”
― Brian Tracy

tags: benevolence, greed, life, wisdom

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#21

“We are not here to exist; we are here to live, to face death and stare it down. We are here to trust in God and to embrace this world in all its quiet and violent beauty, to break down the walls of our own prejudices and believe in something greater than ourselves. We are here to paddle into our worst fears and come out the other side to discover glaciers, to meet them face-to-face, and to celebrate a sense of wonder and God's plan that we find only in Nature.”
― Kim Heacox, John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How A Visionary And The Glaciers Of Alaska Changed America

tags: alaska, glaciers, john-muir, kayaking, nature, purpose, spirituality

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#22

“When we lose these woods, we lose our soul. Not simply as individuals, but as a people.”
― Kevin Walker, These Moments Pass: Poems

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#23

“Who else goes to the woods to find peace only to discover themself in the process? I find forests unclutter the mind with each breath the trees afford me.”
― Michael Poeltl

tags: forests, tree-quotes, trees, woods

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#24

“No one who loves the woods stays on the path,”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

tags: follow-your-heart, follow-your-own-path, forest, life-philosophy, love, nature, passion, path-of-life, woods

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#25

“I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.”
― Louise Dickinson Rich

tags: forest, nature, tree-quotes, trees, woods

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#26

“All food is just a vehicle for transporting butter to my mouth”
― Tyne O'Connell

tags: butter, chef, food, foodie, kitchen

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#27

“Let me rephrase.” He took a seething step toward me. “When it comes to you… I don’t like to share.”
― Samantha Young, On Dublin Street

tags: alpha-male, arrogant, contemporary-romance, hot, lovely, possessive-hero, romance

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#28

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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#29

“Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

tags: hopelessness, inspirational, life, love

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#30

“One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: hopelessness

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