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#1

“I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: darkness, look-forward, night, pillow, pretend, sleep, sylvia-plath, the-bell-jar

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#2

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#3

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

tags: life

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#4

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: poetry

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#5

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, positive-attitude

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#6

“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

tags: poetry

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#7

“I think what I’ve realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn’t matter if you slip down. As long as you’re kind of heading more or less upwards. That’s all you can hope for. More or less upwards.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

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#8

“We don't have to reveal everything to each other. It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK to say, 'I'm not going to share that.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

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#9

“The trouble is, depression doesn't come with handy symptoms like spots and a temperature, so you don't realize it at first. You keep saying 'I'm fine' to people when you're not fine. You think you should be fine. You keep saying to yourself: 'Why aren't I fine?”
― Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

tags: anxiety, depression, mental-health

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#10

“It won’t be forever. You’ll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you’ll come out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

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#11

“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

tags: comedy, life, tragedy

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#12

“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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#13

“I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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#14

“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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#15

“Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

tags: advice, crisis, life, thriving

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#16

“Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

tags: gifts

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#17

“Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

tags: health, illness, parenting-tip

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#18

“Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

tags: acceptance, life

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#19

“It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

tags: food, life, parents, providing

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