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#1

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset

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#2

“And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.”
― Suzan-Lori Parks

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#3

“O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”
― Gary Snyder

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#4

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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#5

“Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter —maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: inspirational

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#6

“I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#7

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

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“I like knowing one story and having everyone else know another. That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#9

“How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: quotes-to-live-by

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#10

“That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#11

“Everything that comes together falls apart”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#12

“i am like a dead begonia hanging upside down because like a dead begonia i don’t give a fuck”
― David Levithan

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#13

“So friday? Do you have plans for Friday?" And then I laughed because the Colonel and I didn't have plans for this Friday or for any other Friday for the rest of our lives.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#14

“I still believe in the Great Perhaps.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#15

“I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything - just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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#16

“I think how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

tags: friendship, important-things-in-life, inspiring, true

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#17

“I don't know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.”
― John Green

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#18

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

tags: alone, creative-process, eye-contact, introverts, profession, story, storytelling, writing

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#19

“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#20

“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: francois-rabelais, last-words

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#21

“So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. I still did not know her as I wanted to, but I never could. She made it impossible for me. And the accident, the suicide, would never be anything else, and I was left to ask, Did I help you to a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I jsut assist in your willful self-destruction? Because they are different crimes, and I didn't know wheter to feel angry at myself for letting go.
But we knew what could be found out, and in finding out, she had made us closer- the Colonel adn Takumi and me, anyway. And that was it. She didn't leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#22

“And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

tags: art, artist, beauty, being-a-poet, being-a-writer, broken, charlotte-eriksson, creating, empty-roads-broken-bottles, growing-up, inspiration, motivation, on-writing, poet, poetry, sacrifice, strength, the-glass-child, the-great-perhaps, writer, writing, young

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#23

“It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again.
Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

tags: alone, arriving, charlotte-eriksson, finding-yourself, growing-up, home, leaving, lost, prose, the-glass-child, the-great-perhaps, travelling, vagabonding, wandering, youth

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#24

“I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn.
Love always, Charlotte”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

tags: become, dreams, existence, goals, growing-up, inspiration, journey, last-words, leaving, life, life-story, london, love, motivation, poetry, solitude, story, the-great-perhaps, travelling, writer

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#25

“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

tags: change, changing, growing-up, growth, journey, leaving, life, life-story, living, london, musician, poetry, self-development, self-knowledge, solitude, songwriter, spiritual-growth, sweden, the-great-perhaps, travelling

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