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#1

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: living, soul

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#2

“I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”
― Anne Sexton

tags: expression, expressiveness, eyes, language

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#3

“I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

tags: almosts, collection

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#4

“Perhaps I am no one.
True, I have a body
and I cannot escape from it.
I would like to fly out of my head,
but that is out of the question.”
― Anne Sexton

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#5

“Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.”
― Anne Sexton

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#6

“O starry night, This is how I want to die”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

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#7

“Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson

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#8

“I promise you
I will try harder
to be better.
I
have battled with things
inside me
for longer than you know;
I do not know
what they are
or why they are there,
I only know
that they feel
manageable,
defeatable,
when I
am around
You.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson

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#9

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#10

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#11

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#12

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#13

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#14

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#15

“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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#16

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

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#17

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#18

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

tags: death, life, poetry

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#19

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#20

“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

tags: dating, humor, relationships, soulmates

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#21

“I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Gracious One; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life's illusions. I am ready to see what really exists on other side, what exists behind the blinds, and taste all the ugly fruit instead of all that looks right, plump and ripe.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: awakening, beautiful, beauty, blind, closing-ears, closing-eyes, conformityredemption, creator, explore, eyes, facades, fake, fruit, fruitful-garden, fruits, garden, god, god-s-garden, grateful, gratitude, illumination, illusion, illusions, journey, life, life-path, light, looking, miracle, miracles, mirage, nature, orchardgracious, path, prayer, quest, real, ripe, search, searching-truth, seeking-truth, sight, substance, superficial, surface, tongues, treasure, truth, truth-path, ugly, vision, wander, wisdom, wise, wonder

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#22

“People care much more for how things look than how things are.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: appearance, illusion, shallow, superficial

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#23

“When we generalize and judge people quickly without taking ample time, we've chosen a shortcut. It's superficial of us, and a lack of wisdom.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

tags: judging-others, lack-of-wisdom, shortcut, superficial

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#24

“ فأومأتُ للسراب وأعلم أن ماء السراب كاذبٌ، وحملت البئرَ التي جفَّ ماؤها في داخلي وكنت كلما أحببتُ أحداً أقع فيها. ويوسف لم يكن اسمي ”
― بسام حجار, مجرد تعب

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#25

“يراكَ المُحِبُّ.. يجعلكَ موجوداً”
― بسام حجار, معجم الأشواق

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#26

“يا ألله!
كُنتُ بعيداً، وكَمْ مَشَيتُ،
وما اقْتَرَبْتُ”
― بسام حجار, سوف تحيا من بعدي

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#27

“وإنّك ذهبت
أبعدُ مما أظنُّ
أبعدُ مما أعرف”
― بسام حجار, سوف تحيا من بعدي

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#28

“لا أُبالي
-حينَ أنظرُ، ساهياً-
بأيّامٍ كان ينبغي أن أحياها،
أو يحياها الظلّ الذي كُنته،
أو ذاكَ الذي كانَ بصحبتي، لأعوامٍ
-وتنقضي الأعوامُ-
كحوارٍ صامتٍ،
كحافلةٍ مسرعةٍ أمامي،
مكتّظة بالمقيمينَ من دوني، هنا،
أو هناك
كأنها ذكرياتُ الشخصِ
الذي وددتُ أن أكونه
كأنها ذكرياتٌ قرأتها في كتابٍ ثمّ فقدته
كتاب استعارهُ صديق ثمّ فقدته،

فلا شأنَ لي بما يجري على بُعدِ أمتار
على بُعد أميالٍ
ومدنٍ
وبحارٍ
وحكاياتٍ،
من بوّابة سهوي

ولاشأنَ لي بمحبّةِ من يُحبني أو يمقتني،
إذ جَعَلْتُني،
لأعوام،
مُتفرّجاً على ميتاتٍ صغيرة

لا أُبالي بي
إن بقيتُ حيّاً
لأيامٍ،
لأعوامٍ أخرى
فلم يبقَ ما أصنعهُ
برجائي
وبالشهواتِ التي تبقّت
لم يبقَ ما أصنعهُ بمتّسعِ اليوم، كل يوم
بالحبور الأحمق
لعابرينَ
في أوقاتٍ شاغرة

لكلامي الذي لا أدري ماذا يقولُ
منذ أعوامٍ طويلة

سأكونُ ساهياً عني،
كمن يُمعِنُ التفكير،
جالساً على مقعد الحجر البارد،
في ردهةِ الأسى الذي لا يُشبه الأسى
بل يشبه السهو
الذي لايسري في الرأسِ
أو العينين
بل السهو الذي يسري تحت الجلدِ
كالقشعريرة
كعثرةٍ في القلب”
― بسام حجار, تفسير الرخام

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#29

“لم يكن الندم فعلاً مدرجاً فى قائمة حياتى.أن أفعل الشئ أو لا أفعله,وفى الحالتين لا أخسر الكثير,تجربة وقد خضتها فتعلمت منها. الندم يعني أن أتراجع عما فعلت, أن أمحو تجربة, أن أسحب لبنه من بنائي, وما من بناء يظل قائماً عندما يفقد لبنه من أساسه.”
― صبا الحرز, الآخرون

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