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“solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside. I think in my own way I’m aware of this danger—probably through experience—and that’s why I’ve had to constantly keep my body in motion, in some cases pushing myself to the limit, in order to heal the loneliness I feel inside and to put it in perspective. Not so much as an intentional act, but as an instinctive reaction.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Tình yêu / không phải chuyện / đưa cho nhau / ngày một bó hoa / Nó là chuyện / những đêm ròng / không ngủ / tóc tai bù / như những rặng cây to”
― Trần Dần

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Mỗi cá nhân phải xây dựng cho mình một la bàn đạo đức riêng, không thể trông chờ vào một cá nhân nào trở thành khuôn mẫu cho một xã hội. Trong một xã hội quá nhiều điều bất thường, từng người trước hết có thể đứng thẳng lên và sống một cuộc đời bình thường.”
― Đặng Hoàng Giang

“There is something in this world which no one has ever seen.
It is soft and sweet.
If it is spotted, I'm sure everyone will want to have it,
Which is why no one has ever seen it.
For this world has hidden it quite well, so that it is difficult to obtain.
But, there will come a day when it is discovered by somebody,
And only those who should obtain it will be able to find it.
That is all.”
― Yuyuko Takemiya, とらドラ！

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
― Iain Thomas

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place”
― Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
― Barack Obama

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
― Barack Obama

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama

“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
― Barack Obama

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
― Fernando Pessoa

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
― John F. Kennedy

“take consolation from the fact that the brighter the individual, the more he or she detests small talk.”
― Leil Lowndes, How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

“Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.”
― David O. Russell, I Heart Huckabees: The Shooting Script

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.”
― Nelson Algren

“Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.”
― Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side

“I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a
bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely
than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south
wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new
house.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
― Mae West

“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
― Alan Turing, Computing machinery and intelligence

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper