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  • #1
    Elle Newmark
    “...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”
    Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief

  • #2
    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

  • #3
    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”
    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

  • #4
    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.”
    Rose Kennedy

  • #5
    Paulo Coelho
    “If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
    Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
    haruki murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #7
    Joyce Cary
    “To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.”
    Joyce Cary

  • #8
    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
    Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

  • #9
    Rose Gordon
    “A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”
    Rose Gordon, Her Imperfect Groom

  • #10
    “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
    Christina Westover

  • #11
    Adyashanti
    “Time to cash in your chips
    put your ideas and beliefs on the table.
    See who has the bigger hand
    you or the Mystery that pervades you.

    Time to scrape the mind's shit
    off your shoes
    undo the laces
    that hold your prison together
    and dangle your toes into emptiness.

    Once you've put everything
    on the table
    once all of your currency is gone
    and your pockets are full of air
    all you've got left to gamble with
    is yourself.

    Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top
    of the highest stakes table.
    Place yourself as the bet.
    Look God in the eyes
    and finally
    for once in your life
    lose.”
    Adyashanti

  • #12
    Adyashanti
    “The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.”
    Adyashanti

  • #13
    Adyashanti
    “If you prefer smoke over fire
    then get up now and leave.
    For I do not intend to perfume
    your mind's clothing
    with more sooty knowledge.

    No, I have something else in mind.
    Today I hold a flame in my left hand
    and a sword in my right.
    There will be no damage control today.

    For God is in a mood
    to plunder your riches and
    fling you nakedly
    into such breathtaking poverty
    that all that will be left of you
    will be a tendency to shine.

    So don't just sit around this flame
    choking on your mind.
    For this is no campfire song
    to mindlessly mantra yourself to sleep with.

    Jump now into the space
    between thoughts
    and exit this dream
    before I burn the damn place down.”
    Adyashanti

  • #14
    Adyashanti
    “Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
    has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
    crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
    through the facade of pretence. It's the
    complete eradication of everything we
    imagined to be true.”
    Adyashanti

  • #15
    Adyashanti
    “Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred. I meet a lot of people who think they are enlightened and awake simply because they have had a very moving spiritual experience. They wear their enlightenment on their sleeve like a badge of honor. They sit among friends and talk about how awake they are while sipping coffee at a cafe. The funny thing about enlightenment is that when it is authentic, there is no one to claim it. Enlightenment is very ordinary; it is nothing special. Rather than making you more special, it is going to make you less special. It plants you right in the center of a wonderful humility and innocence. Everyone else may or may not call you enlightened, but when you are enlightened the whole notion of enlightenment and someone who is enlightened is a big joke. I use the word enlightenment all the time; not to point you toward it but to point you beyond it. Do not get stuck in enlightenment.”
    Adyashanti

  • #16
    Adyashanti
    “My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.”
    Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing

  • #17
    Adyashanti
    “When someone tells you, “I love you,” and then you feel, “Oh, I must be worthy after all,” that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, “I hate you,” and you think, “Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,” that’s not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, “I love you,” he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, “I hate you,” she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views—literally”
    Adyashanti

  • #18
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you desire healing,
    let yourself fall ill
    let yourself fall ill.”
    Rumi

  • #19
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

  • #20
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #21
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

  • #22
    Augusten Burroughs
    “I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”
    Augusten Burroughs, Dry

  • #23
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

  • #24
    Victor Hugo
    “Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #25
    Anaïs Nin
    “I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #26
    Shannon L. Alder
    “True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #27
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told him that in English we sometimes say, 'I've been there.' This was unclear to him at first-I've been where? But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific loacation, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.
    'So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked.
    'Sometimes people live there for years,' I said.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #29
    Aberjhani
    “Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.”
    Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

  • #30
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #31
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke



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