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    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: beauty, inner-beauty, inspirational
    2367 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: activist, aging, beautiful-personatlity, beautiful-soul, charity, communicators, community, compassion, empathetic, fathers, friendships, givers, giving-heart, helping-out, homeless-tent-community, inner-beauty, inspiration, inspirational, jealousy, judgement, loving, marine-life-conservation, medical-missions, mothers, motivators, openess, outward-beauty, people-of-action, perspectives, philosophy, prayer, real-people, reflection, rescuers, search-and-rescue, service, takers, tender, time, true-beauty, truth, vanity, writing
    368 likes

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  • #4
    Criss Jami
    “If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.”
    ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
    tags: beauty, blind, blindness, contemplation, inner-beauty, love, relationship, seeing, shallowness, thought-provoking, true-love, unconditional-love
    459 likes

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  • #5
    Cassandra Clare
    “He clung to her more tightly, knotting his hands in her hair, trying to tell her, with the press of his mouth on hers, all the things he could never say out loud: I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
    I don’t know how to be without you.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
    tags: because-it-is-bitter, city-of-ashes, clary-fray, forbidden-love, jace-wayland, mortal-instruments, shorts
    241 likes

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  • #6
    Arundhati Roy
    “If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: forbidden-love
    300 likes

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  • #7
    Cassandra Clare
    “He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
    tags: cristina-rosales, emma-carstairs, forbidden-love, heartbreak, lady-midnight, love
    366 likes

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  • #8
    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
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  • #9
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
    165220 likes

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  • #10
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127112 likes

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  • #11
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128900 likes

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  • #12
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
    37057 likes

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  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
    ― oscar wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source
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  • #15
    Ian Fleming
    “You only live twice:
    Once when you are born
    And once when you look death in the face”
    ― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
    tags: death, haiku, james-bond, philosophy, poetry
    2815 likes

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  • #16
    Ryan Mecum
    “Blood is really warm,
    it's like drinking hot chocolate
    but with more screaming.”
    ― Ryan Mecum, Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains
    tags: blood, haiku, horror, humor, zombies
    294 likes

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  • #17
    “It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.”
    ― Jon J. Muth
    tags: haiku, neighbors, spelling, zen
    184 likes

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  • #18
    Arzum Uzun
    “In this story
    I am the poet
    You're the poetry.”
    ― Arzum Uzun
    tags: arzum-uzun, arzum-uzun-quotes, arzum-uzun-sözleri, breaking-up, broken-heart, broken-hearted, broken-hearts, conflict, ego, egocentrism, egoism, egotistical, end-of-the-summer, heart-break, jokes, laughing, love, love-poems, love-quotes, making-jokes, poet, poetry-love, poetry-quotes, poets, relationship, relationships, smiling, summer
    280 likes

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  • #19
    Maquita Donyel Irvin Andrews
    “she was completely whole
    and yet never fully complete”
    ― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
    tags: art, artist, be-present, beautiful-mind, beautiful-women, black-women-quotes, black-women-writers, black-writers, bloom, christian-writers, coincidence, complete, faith, faith-in-god, flower, growth-quotes, hope, imperfect, imperfection, jesus, love, love-poems, love-quotes, love-stories, lovely, no-coincidences, perfectly-imperfect, poems, purposeful-living, rare, relationship-quotes, relationships, single, single-woman, stories-of-a-polished-pistil, trust, wanderer, wanderlust, whole, women-writers, writers
    103 likes

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  • #20
    Lauren Beukes
    “She would disappear
    folded like origami
    into her own dreams”
    ― Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls
    tags: haiku
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  • #21
    David Levithan
    “I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
    ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: homicide, suicide
    3524 likes

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  • #22
    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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  • #23
    Jay Asher
    “A lot of you cared, just not enough.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
    tags: apathy, suicide, tragedy
    3312 likes

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  • #24
    Tiffanie DeBartolo
    “Did you really want to die?"
    "No one commits suicide because they want to die."
    "Then why do they do it?"
    "Because they want to stop the pain.”
    ― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star
    tags: intent, pain, suicide
    2780 likes

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  • #25
    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: perseverance, suicide, survival
    2921 likes

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  • #26
    Aberjhani
    “Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.”
    ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
    tags: angel-poems, angels, famous-quotes-from-classic-books, grace, haiku, haikus, healing, love, lovers, philosophy, poets-of-the-angels, rebirth, recovery, sorrow, spiritual-empowerment, spirituality, valentine-love, valentine-s-day, world-suicide-prevention-day
    212 likes

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  • #27
    E.E. Cummings
    “mr youse needn't be so spry
    concernin questions arty

    each has his tastes but as for i
    i likes a certain party

    gimme the he-man's solid bliss
    for youse ideas i'll match youse

    a pretty girl who naked is
    is worth a million statues”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: humor, sex
    58 likes



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