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#1

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

tags: acceptance, getting-over-it

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#2

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

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#3

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

tags: mortality

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#4

“If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

tags: love

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#5

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

tags: buddhism, metaphysics, philosophy, religion, tao, taoism, theology, zen

2043 likes

#6

“My mother says that when Mrs. Rowley is mean, which is generally the case, it is really because she is just unhappy, and who could blame her with a husband like that . . . She says this is really the only reason people are ever mean--they have something hurting inside of them, a claw of unhappiness scratching at their hearts, and it hurts them so much that sometimes they have to push it right out of their mouths to scratch someone else, just to give themselves a rest, a moment of relief.”
― Laura Moriarty

tags: mean, meanness, needs, unhappiness, unhappy

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#7

“I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.”
― Nancy E. Turner, Sarah's Quilt

tags: character, evil, good, hardship, mean

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#8

“The more we love ourselves, the less we project our pain onto the world.”
― Louise L. Hay, Life Loves You: 7 Spiritual Practices to Heal Your Life

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#9

“The more we love ourselves, the less we project our pain onto the world. When we stop judging ourselves, we naturally judge others less. When we stop attacking ourselves, we don’t attack others. When we stop rejecting ourselves, we stop accusing others of hurting us. When we start loving ourselves more, we become happier, less defended, and more open. As we love ourselves, we naturally love others more. “Self-love is the greatest gift because what you give yourself is experienced by others,” says Louise.”
― Louise L. Hay, Life Loves You: 7 Spiritual Practices to Heal Your Life

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#10

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: acceptance, contentment, perception, self-acceptance, self-assurance, self-confidence

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#11

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

tags: conduct-of-life, life, self-confidence, self-trust

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#12

“I laugh at myself.
I don't take myself completely seriously.
I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.”
― Madonna

tags: laugh, self-acceptance, self-confidence

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#13

“A competitive and insecure woman will tell you that “true love” is never giving up on someone you're in love with. A confident and spiritual woman knows that “moving on” doesn’t mean you never loved someone. She realizes that letting go is what God needs her to do because both your happiness and hers requires taking different journeys for spiritual growth. Letting go is sometimes the hardest thing, but it is the most “real love” you will ever experience.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: betrayal, divorcing, ending-it, faith, letting-go, love, moving-on, real-love, sacrifices, see, self-confidence, self-worth, true-love

300 likes

#14

“How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.”
― Richelle Mead, Succubus Revealed

tags: love, self-confidence

105 likes

#15

“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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#16

“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

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#17

“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”
― Alan Watts

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#18

“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.”
― Alan Watts

tags: wisdom

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#19

“Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”
― Alan Watts

tags: feigned-affection

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#20

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148355 likes

#21

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#22

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#23

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

tags: life, love

15814 likes

#24

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne

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#25

“And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: fantasy, laini-taylor, young-adult

561 likes

#26

“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go! and The Lorax

tags: depressing, hopeless, lonely

3263 likes

#27

“It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die.”
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June

tags: loneliness, lonely, space

277 likes

#28

“My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: age, bukowski, lonely

282 likes

#29

“even
in the loneliest moments

i have been there
for myself.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: inspirational, loneliness, lonely, love-yourself, poetry, poetry-quotes, self-empowerment, self-esteem, self-help

212 likes

#30

“According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: psychology

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