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#1

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

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#2

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

6572 likes

#3

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: freedom, stories

1788 likes

#4

“Your eyes have the colour of the moon,”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: eyes, love-poetry, moon, moonlight

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#5

“and everything burned in blue, everything a star”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: blue, burn, burned, burning, everything, stars

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#6

“I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything.
Maybe we’re from the same star.”
― Emery Allen

tags: love, soul, soulmates, star

820 likes

#7

“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together?
Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”
― Emery Allen

tags: coincidence, fate, serendipity, strange, universe

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#8

“Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: marriage, religious

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#9

“Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

tags: love, love-songs, morning, paris, quote, roman-payne, romance, rooftop-soliloquy, rooftops, twilight

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#10

“It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world's existence.”
― Italo Calvino, The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount

tags: beautiful, light, morning

24 likes

#11

“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: nature, simplicity

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#12

“You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

tags: being, existence, nature, simplicity

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#13

“There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
― Mark Twain

tags: forgiveness, inspirational, relationships

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#14

“Get rid of all that is unnecessary. Wabi-sabi means treading lightly on the planet and knowing how to appreciate whatever is encountered, no matter how trifling, whenever it is encountered. [...] In other words, wabi-sabi tells us to stop our preoccupation with success--wealth, status, power, and luxury--and enjoy the unencumbered life. Obviously, leading the simple wabi-sabi life requires some effort and will and also some tough decisions. Wabi-sabi acknowledges that just as it is important to know when to make choices, it is also important to know when not to make choices: to let things be. Even at the most austere level of material existence, we still live in a world of things. Wabi-sabi is exactly about the delicate balance between the pleasure we get from things and the pleasure we get from freedom of things.”
― Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

tags: wabi-sabi

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#15

“Psilocybes gave our hominid ancestors “access to realms of supernatural power,” “catalyzed the emergence of human self-reflection,” and “brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.” This last hypothesis about the invention of language turns on the concept of synesthesia, the conflation of the senses that psychedelics are known to induce: under the influence of psilocybin, numbers can take on colors, colors attach to sounds, and so on. Language, he contends, represents a special case of synesthesia, in which otherwise meaningless sounds become linked to concepts. Hence, the stoned ape: by giving us the gifts of language and self-reflection psilocybin mushrooms made us who we are, transforming our primate ancestors into Homo sapiens.”
― Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

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#16

“Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”
― Roman Payne

tags: desert, earth, gold, happiness, heat, importance-of-existence, joy, light, optimism, quotes-from-books, quotes-from-modern-writers, riches, roman-payne, short-quote, short-quotes, summer, sun-worship, sunlight, sunny, sunrise, sunset, sunshine, travel, tropical, value

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#17

“Pale sky, white land; like somewhere past the end of the world”
― Rinsai Rossetti

tags: desert, end, rinsai-rossetti, rosetti, sky, world

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#18

“When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

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#19

“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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#20

“The stars are in blossom, the moon is in flower,
And bright are the windows of Night in her tower.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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#21

“In the vessel of your body, you yourself are the world tree, deep roots in the Earth and a crown of stars. Your essence bridges dimensions.”
― Elizabeth Eiler, Swift and Brave: Sacred Souls of Animals

tags: body, grounded, roots, soul, spirit, spiritual-connection, spirituality, stars, tree

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#22

“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…”
― Hermes Trismegistus

449 likes

#23

“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: allegory, brooks, creation, destruction, earth, environment, fish, glens, loss, man, maps, mystery, nature, parable, past, trout, wonder, world

942 likes

#24

“If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

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#25

“... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: philosophy-of-life, time

73 likes

#26

“The river is everywhere.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: flow, life, omnipresence, river

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