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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Mitch Albom
    “Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: life, love
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  • #5
    “Even
    After
    All this time
    The Sun never says to the Earth,

    "You owe me."

    Look
    What happens
    With a love like that,
    It lights the whole sky.”
    ― Hafiz
    tags: life, love, sky, sun
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  • #6
    Sylvia Plath
    “Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: dreams, infatuation, love, sensation, thoughts
    3700 likes

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  • #7
    Neil Gaiman
    “A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

    (As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: books, dreams
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  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #9
    Jon Krakauer
    “Happiness [is] only real when shared”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
    tags: family, happiness, inspirational, love, marriage
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  • #10
    Jon Krakauer
    “Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
    tags: love
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    Jon Krakauer
    “When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
    tags: forgiveness, love
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil
    tags: love, relationships, romance
    12910 likes

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    Stephanie Perkins
    “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: home, love, relationships, touching
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    Bill Watterson
    “Mom’s not feeling well. So I’m making her a get well card.”
    “That’s thoughtful of you.”
    "See, on the front it says, ‘Get Well Soon’ … and on the inside it says,’Because my bed isn’t made, my clothes need to be put away and I’m hungry. Love Calvin.’ Want to sign it?”
    “Sure, I’m hungry too”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes
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  • #15
    Bill Watterson
    “I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: adam-gottbetter, calvin, calvin-and-hobbes, comic, comics, dreams-calvin-and-hobbes, genes, genetics, hobbes, kids
    136 likes

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  • #16
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, stephen-chbosky, the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
    2475 likes

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  • #17
    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
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  • #18
    John Steinbeck
    “A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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    John Steinbeck
    “I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, government
    104 likes

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  • #21
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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  • #22
    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: loneliness
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  • #23
    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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  • #24
    John Steinbeck
    “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: conflict, politics, war
    2070 likes

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  • #25
    John Steinbeck
    “A man without words is a man without thought.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: wisdom
    490 likes

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  • #26
    Edward Abbey
    “Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: action, deeds, ruin, sentiment, soul
    203 likes

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  • #27
    Edward Abbey
    “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: truth
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  • #28
    Edward Abbey
    “Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: politics
    493 likes

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    Edward Abbey
    “Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.”
    ― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
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  • #30
    Edward Abbey
    “If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”
    ― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
    233 likes



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