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  • #1
    Daniel Keyes
    “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
    Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

  • #2
    Sun Tzu
    “If his forces are united, separate them.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #3
    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #4
    Warsan Shire
    “My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #5
    Warsan Shire
    “You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #6
    Warsan Shire
    “It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
    Rumi

  • #8
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn't measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It's not winning battles that makes you happy, but it's how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most, most, most important ones, let the rest go.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #9
    A.A. Milne
    “What day is it?” asked Pooh.
    “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
    “My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #10
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #11
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
    Zora Neale Hurston

  • #12
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive

  • #13
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #14
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
    Zora Neale Hurston

  • #15
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.”
    Zora Neale Hurston

  • #16
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #17
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
    Zora Neale Hurston

  • #18
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #19
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #20
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

  • #21
    C.G. Jung
    “Everybody acts out a myth, but very few people know what their myth is. And you should know what your myth is because it might be a tragedy and maybe you dont want it to be.”
    Carl Jung



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