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#1

“Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: closed-door, destiny, everything-happens-for-a-reason, faith, meant-to-be, new-beginnings, open-doors, opportunity, positive-thinking, purpose, the-end, trust, trusting-the-journey

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#2

“Too many locks, not enough keys.”
― Sarah Dessen

tags: inspirational, life-quotes

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#3

“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: buttercup, garden, heart, hidden-treasure, love, secret, the-princess-bride, walls, william-goldman

1330 likes

#4

“Even paradise could become a prison if one had enough time to take notice of the walls.”
― Morgan Rhodes, Falling Kingdoms

tags: paradise, walls

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#5

“The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: coping, denial, fear, feelings, honesty, love, mind, stages-of-grief, supressing-feelings, truth

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#6

“Eye can only see something if
idea about it has been in mind.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: eyes, idea, mind, reality, see

28 likes

#7

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship

1854 likes

#8

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#9

“Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion -- these are the two things that govern us.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories

tags: soul

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#10

“The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver, Thirst

tags: darkness, poetry, sorrow

829 likes

#11

“I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: happiness, lost-love, love

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#12

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: books, literature, lonliness, reading, solitude

1814 likes

#13

“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy

tags: happiness, happy, heartbreak, hurt, love, self

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#14

“I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.”
― David Archuleta, Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance

tags: goal, happiness, life, life-lessons, thought

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#15

“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.”
― Robertson Davies, The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies

tags: happiness, life

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#16

“Hope is a most beautiful drug.”
― Jeremy Mercer, Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.

tags: france-books, paris, poets, writers

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#17

“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: astronomy, cosmology

1086 likes

#18

“A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.”
― Anne Roiphe

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#19

“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

tags: sun-drenched, travel

1735 likes

#20

“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: appreciation, excuses, gratitude, inspirational, life, motivational, no-regrets, seize-the-day, success

1424 likes

#21

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: be-yourself, beauty, body-image, comfortable, happiness, imperfection, inspirational, life, rare, success, women

1747 likes

#22

“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.”
― Drew Barrymore

tags: beauty, happiness

1180 likes

#23

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.”
― Osho Rajneesh, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now

tags: happiness, life, sadness

1528 likes

#24

“Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.”
― Osho

766 likes

#25

“Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.”
― Osho

tags: love

587 likes

#26

“Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.”
― Osho Rajneesh

210 likes

#27

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

tags: change, life, time

1332 likes

#28

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

tags: failure, success, time

3300 likes

#29

“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

4088 likes

#30

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world

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