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#1

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: funny

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#2

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#3

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

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#4

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: happiness, wisdom

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#5

“Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: revenge

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#6

“أن نخون ، هو أن نخرج من الصف ونسير في المجهول”
― ميلان كونديرا

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#7

“الحب هو تلك الرغبة في إيجاد النصف الآخر المفقود من أنفسنا.”
― ميلان كونديرا, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: ميلان-كونديرا

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#8

“كانت غير قادرة على إغماض جفن طيلة الليل. أما بين ذراعيه فكانت تغفو دائما مهما تكن درجة اضطرابها. كان يروي من أجلها بصوت خافت قصصا يبتدعها أو ترهات وكلمات مضحكة يعيدها بلهجة رتيبة. كانت هذه الكلمات تتحول في مخيلتها إلى روئ مشوشة تأخذ بيدها إلى الحلم الأول .كان يملك تأثيرا خارقا على إغفائها ،وكانت تغفو في الدقيقة التي يقرر هو أن ينتقيها”
― ميلان كونديرا, كائن لا تحتمل خفته

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#9

“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

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#10

“We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

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#11

“Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: acceptance, attitude, beauty, beginnings, confidence, difference, different, future, insecure, insecurity, integrity, letting-go, moving-on, not-caring, personality, pride, proud, quality, self-acceptance, self-love, special, unique

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#12

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: grief, loneliness

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#13

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: freedom, inspirational-quotes, loss, ownership

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#14

“When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the “10 second heartbreak.” That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember…”
― Nina Guilbeau

tags: heartache, heartbreak, heartbroken, loss, mourning

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#15

“If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: attitude, bold, boldness, boldness-and-attitude, brave, bravery, commitment, consequences, courage, courageous, coward, face, guts, man-up, responsibility, running, running-away, stand-up, stand-up-for-yourself, standing, staying-strong, strength, strong

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#16

“Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.”
― Nikita Gill

tags: constellations, dream-big, life, love, nikitagill, perspectives, stars

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#17

“We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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#18

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: dance, dancing, music

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#19

“I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince myself that he and I would be together again. I already knew too many dead people. I knew that time would now pass for me differently then it would for him- that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: cancer, death-of-a-loved-one, death-of-a-teenager, illness

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#20

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, inspiration, love, strength

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#21

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

tags: art, arts-and-humanities, creative-process, writing

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#22

“[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.”
― Simon Van Booy

tags: bibliophiles, book, book-lovers, books, reading, reading-books

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#23

“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness

tags: confession, disappointment, fear, happiness, memory

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#24

“وأنت تعد فطورك، فكر بغيرك... (لا تنس قوت الحمام)
وأنت تخوض حروبك، فكر بغيرك... (لا تنس من يطلبون السلام)
وأنت تسدد فاتورة الماء، فكر بغيرك... (من يرضعون الغمام)
وأنت تعود الي البيت، بيتك، فكر بغيرك... (لا تنس شعب الخيام)
وأنت تنام وتحصي الكواكب، فكر بغيرك... (ثمة من لم يجد حيزا للمنام)
وأنت تحرر نفسك بالاستعارات، فكر بغيرك... (من فقدوا حقهم في الكلام)
وأنت تفكر بالآخرين البعيدين، فكر بنفسك... (قل: ليتني شمعة في الظلام)”
― محمود درويش

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#25

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

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#26

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, libraries, library, reading

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#27

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: books, library

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#28

“Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: heartbreak, love, mourning

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#29

“I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.”
― Martha Gellhorn, Travels With Myself and Another

tags: books, packing, travel

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#30

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, future, home, homelessness, leaving, memories, memory, moving-on, past, reminiscence, roots, uncertainty

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