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#1

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: change, life

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#2

“There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.”
― Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man

tags: addiction, clinging, codependency, dysfunctional-relationship, howard-thurman, manhood, purpose-in-life

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#3

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

tags: depression, pain, trauma

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#4

“There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

tags: pleasure

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#10

“Altruism is for those
who can't endure their desires.
There's a world

as ambiguous as a moan,
a pleasure moan
our earnest neighbors

might think a crime.
It's where we could live.
I'll say I love you,

Which will lead, of course,
to disappointment,
but those words unsaid

poison every next moment.
I will try to disappoint you
better than anyone else has.

--Mon Semblable”
― Stephen Dunn, Different Hours

tags: disappointment, love, pleasure

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#11

“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: life, memory, pain, pleasure

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#15

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#16

“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: love, making-love, pleasure, respect, sensuality, sex, touch

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#17

“You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”
― Stephen Chbosky

tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower

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#23

“Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: pleasure

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#35

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

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#38

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: melancholy, pleasure, sad, sorrow

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#40

“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

tags: happiness, lasting, pleasure, temporary

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#41

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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#42

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#43

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: classics

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#44

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: attitude, explain, gossip, life, people, public-opinion, time, wisdom

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#45

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet, past, pleasure, remembrance

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#46

“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

tags: pain, pleasure, time

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#47

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
― Fred Rogers

tags: communication, fear, friendship, inspirational, trauma, trust

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#48

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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#49

“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

tags: choice, life, pain, pleasure

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#50

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: hindsight, regret

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#51

“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, being-loved, inspirational, life, love, relationships

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#52

“And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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#53

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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#54

“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 do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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#55

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure

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#56

“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#57

“We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: love

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