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#1

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

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#2

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: loneliness, loss, yearning

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#3

“Any love that is love is right.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels

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#4

“Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.”
― Sumi

tags: encouragement

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#5

“Every word written is a victory against Death. ”
― Michel Butor

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#6

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

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#7

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: flight, flying, inspirational

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#8

“While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.”
― Jim Beaver, Life's That Way

tags: children, humor, love, parenting

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#9

“There are jokes about breast surgeons.
You know-- something like-- I've seen more breasts in this city than--
I don't know the punch line.
There must be a punch line.

I'm not a man who falls in love easily. I've been faithful to my
wife. We fell in love when we were twenty-two. We had plans. There
was justice in the world. There was justice in love. If a person was
good enough, an equally good person would fall in love with that
person. And then I met-- Ana. Justice had nothing to do with it.

There once was a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was
married to a nurse. He loved her-- immeasurably. One day Halsted
noticed that his wife's hands were chapped and red when she came back
from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is
one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between
inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love.

When I met Ana, I knew:
I loved her to the point of invention.”
― Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House and Other Plays

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#10

“My advice is to GET WEIRD so that the people who will love you for being you (your tribe) can find you.”
― Benjamin Brown

tags: be-you, be-yourself, don-t-hide, don-t-hide-it, hiding, hiding-feelings, weird, weirdness, weirdo, your-tribe

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#11

“I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone
I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder
As you and I once heard their monotone.

Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me
The cold and sparkling silver of the sea --
We two will pass through death and ages lengthen
Before you hear that sound again with me.”
― Sarah Teasdale

tags: beach, death, memories, missing-someone, ocean

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#12

“The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.”
― Hasse Jerner

tags: business, business-quotes, love, love-quotes, message, messages, missing, missing-someone

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#13

“The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.”
― Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

tags: cruelty

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#14

“The ax forgets; the tree remembers.”
― Shona proverb

tags: abuse, bullying, cruelty, privilege

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#15

“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: charity, death, goodness, help, inspirational

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#16

“But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.”
― Federico Garcia Lorca

tags: bitten, broken, destroyed, entwine, federico-garcia-lorca, love, mouth, sonnet-of-the-garland-of-roses, soul

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#17

“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: death, envy, life

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#18

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
― Edward Everett Hale

tags: ability, accomplishment, confidence, determination, self, self-esteem

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#19

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

tags: kindness

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#20

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, kindness

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#21

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
― Anne Bradstreet

tags: authority, brute-force, force, oppression, wisdom

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#22

“Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: decisions, intellectual, reluctant

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#23

“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”
― Leigh Hunt

tags: family, love

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#24

“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

tags: karma, violence

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#25

“There is a shock that comes so quickly and strikes so deep that the blow is internalized even before then skin feels it. The strike must first reach bone marrow, then ascend slowly to the brain where the slowpoke intellect records the deed.”
― Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

tags: emotion, feeling, humanity, ptsd, shock, trauma

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#26

“. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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#27

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”
― Kait Rokowski

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#28

“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.”
― Christine de Pizan, Le Débat Sur Le Roman De La Rose

tags: attacks, beliefs, clichés, convictions, dignity, double-standards, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, insults, men, misogyny, preconceptions, prejudice, repartee, self-esteem, self-importance, slander, stereotypes, wit, women

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#29

“they asked "do you love her to death?"

i said "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life”
― Mahmoud Darwish

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