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  • #1
    Sophocles
    “I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life”
    Sophocles, Antigone

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
    By each let this be heard,
    Some do it with a bitter look,
    Some with a flattering word,
    The coward does it with a kiss,
    The brave man with a sword!

    Some kill their love when they are young,
    And some when they are old;
    Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
    The kindest use a knife, because
    The dead so soon grow cold.

    Some love too little, some too long,
    Some sell and others buy;
    Some do the deed with many tears,
    And some without a sigh:
    For each man kills the thing he loves,
    Yet each man does not die.”
    Oscar Wilde, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol

  • #3
    Pablo Neruda
    “Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #4
    Pablo Neruda
    “I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
    Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

  • #5
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
    I love you simply, without problems or pride:
    I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #6
    Richelle Mead
    “I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony”
    Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

  • #7
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • #8
    Elif Shafak
    “The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.”
    Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

  • #9
    Elif Shafak
    “Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.”
    Elif Shafak

  • #10
    Elif Shafak
    “Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.”
    Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

  • #11
    Elif Shafak
    “Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person.”
    Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

  • #12
    Elif Shafak
    “إن القذارة الحقيقية تقبع في الداخل، أما القذارة الأخرى فهي تزول بغسلها. ويوجد نوع واحد من القذارة لا يمكن تطهيرها
    بالماء النقي، وهو لوثة الكراهية والتعصب التي تلوث الروح. نستطيع أن نطهر أجسامنا بالزهد والصيام، لكن الحب وحده هو الذي يطهر قلوبنا.

    Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart.”
    Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

  • #13
    Brian  Andreas
    “She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.”
    Brian Andreas

  • #14
    William Shakespeare
    “Cowards die many times before their deaths;
    The valiant never taste of death but once.
    Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
    It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
    Seeing that death, a necessary end,
    Will come when it will come.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yet each man kills the thing he loves
    By each let this be heard
    Some do it with a bitter look
    Some with a flattering word
    The coward does it with a kiss
    The brave man with a sword”
    Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #17
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    John A. Shedd

  • #18
    Eugene V. Debs
    “I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.”
    Eugene V. Debs, Eugene V. Debs Speaks

  • #19
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
    Jean Paul Sartre

  • #20
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • #21
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #22
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #23
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    “The music is not in the notes,
    but in the silence between.”
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • #24
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #25
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #26
    Haruki Murakami
    “Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #27
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

  • #28
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

  • #29
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “He dejado de acordarme de lo que ayer ocurrió y de preguntarme qué ocurrirá mañana. Lo que ocurre hoy, en el minuto presente, es lo que me interesa. Yo digo: ¿Qué haces Zorba en este momento? Duermo. ¡Pues, entonces, duérmete bien! ¿Qué haces en este momento, Zorba? Trabajo. ¡Pues entonces, trabaja bien! ¿Y ahora qué haces, Zorba? Estoy besando a una mujer. ¡Pues entonces, bésala bien, Zorba, olvídate de todo, que en el mundo sólo existís ella y tú, hala!”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

  • #30
    Pablo Neruda
    “Quiero que sepas
    una cosa.

    Si de pronto
    me olvidas
    no me busques,
    que ya te habré olvidado.”
    Pablo Neruda



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