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#1

“Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: angels, beauty, eyes, hope, perspective, poetry, poets, sight, vision

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#2

“If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days.”
― Anne Stuart, Black Ice

tags: making-love

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#3

“There was no world, no land, no god or heaven or earth outside of their two bodies naked and trembling in the act of love.”
― Roman Payne

tags: love-making, lovers, making-love, quotes-from-novels, sex, sexuality

16 likes

#4

“We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.”
― Harry Edwards

tags: children, dream, kids, teach

140 likes

#5

“If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?”
― Thomas Lovell Beddoes

tags: dream

43 likes

#6

“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.”
― Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

tags: leaving

612 likes

#7

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

tags: desire, leaving

298 likes

#8

“He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

tags: leaving, sad

31 likes

#9

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

tags: endings, knowing, life, novel, people, worth

698 likes

#10

“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: answer, life, oblivious

85 likes

#11

“Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

tags: destructive-relationships, forgiveness, forgiveness-quotes, hurt, love, love-quotes, mindfulness, personal-growth, real-love, real-love-quotes, toxic-relationships

29 likes

#12

“Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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#13

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

155 likes

#14

“My words itch at your ears till you understand them”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

tags: learning, teaching, teaching-as-leadership

144 likes

#15

“Maybe we needed to break a little, so we could put ourselves back together more beautifully than before.”
― Leah Raeder, Cam Girl

tags: breaking-up, love, reunited-lovers

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#16

“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing of loss. Ours was a world of eternal spring, until the summer came.”
― Roman Payne, Hope and Despair

tags: adam-and-eve, beauty, blush, blushing, change, childhood, childlike, childlikeness, children, courting, desire, desiring-someone, eden, garden-of-eden, god, hope-and-despair, innocence, intoxication, kissing, life-change, love-at-first-sight, love-making, love-quote, lovers, lovers-love-story, lovers-sadness, loving, loving-someone, making-love, nocturne, opium, passion, payne, poem, poetry, poetry-quotations, poetry-quotes, quotes-from-poems, roman, roman-payne, romance, romantic, running, sacred, sea, secretive, secrets, seduction, seductive, sensual, sensuality, sexual-quote, sexuality, short-love-quote, spring, storybook, strength, summer, summer-rain, summer-showers, sunshine, surrender, sweet, the-love-of-europa, the-wanderess, thighs, time, travel, true-love, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering, wanderlust, wayfaring, wet-hair, wilderness, wildflower, wisdom, woman, woman-s-character, woman-s-strength, womanhood, women, women-s-inspirational, women-s-liberation, women-s-strength, young-love

61 likes

#17

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
― Bette Midler

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#18

“People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It’s foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be better than you imagined. Different, but better.”
― Chloe Rattray, Sacré Noir

tags: friendship, realization, second-chances

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#19

“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: comfort, crying, tears

4309 likes

#20

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

tags: dream, dreamer, fyodor-dostoyevsky, memories, white-nights

944 likes

#21

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

12965 likes

#22

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

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#23

“We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: eternity

711 likes

#24

“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
― Jo Nesbo

tags: death, depression, despair, life

804 likes

#25

“Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.”
― Phoebe Stone, The Boy on Cinnamon Street

1149 likes

#26

“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
― Khalil Gibran

tags: ocean, sacred, sea, tears

163 likes

#27

“Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.”
― Stephen King

tags: it, moon, roses, universe

121 likes

#28

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

tags: humor, sadness

3088 likes

#29

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

tags: grief, mourning, sadness, sorrow, suffering

2567 likes

#30

“القراءة وحدها هي التي تُعطي الإنسان الواحد أكثر من حياة واحدة؛ لأنها تزيد هذه الحياة عمقاً، وإن كانت لا تطيلها بمقدار الحساب”
― عباس محمود العقاد

tags: قراءة

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