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#1

“Ink helps you float when emotions drown you.”
― Ashwini Dodani

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#2

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, live-in-the-moment, optimism, wonder

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#3

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: carpe-diem, enjoy-life, indolence, live-in-the-moment

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#5

“Overthinking will not empower you over things that are beyond your control. So, let it be if it is meant to be and cherish the moment.”
― Mahsati A

tags: face-the-reality, live-in-the-moment, overthinking, selfempowerment

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#6

“So there you have it: two things & I can't bring them together & they are wrenching me apart. These two feelings, this knowledge of a world so awful, this sense of a life so extraordinary—how am I to resolve them?”
― Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

tags: inner-conflict, life

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#7

“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

tags: ambivalence, ambivalent, hopeless, hopelessness, implausible, impossible, inner-conflict, intelligence, opposing-views

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#8

“Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast,
And each will wrestle for the mastery there.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

tags: inner-conflict

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#9

“If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? Doing to others an act you’d rather not have done to you reveals a powerful internal conflict.”
― Alexandra Katehakis

tags: boomerang, do-unto-others, example, golden-rule, inner-conflict, karma

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#10

“Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: inner-conflict, otto-von-bismarck, procrastination

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#11

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: life-choices-fig-trees

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#12

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

tags: counselling, paradox, self-awareness, self-improvement

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#13

“Let us cultivate our garden.”
― Voltaire, Candide

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#14

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: aspiration, self-awareness, self-improvement

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#15

“How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.”
― Anne Frank

tags: anne-frank, self-improvement

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#16

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: chances, commitment, courtship, dating, faithfulness, friendship, love, marriage, mates, patience, relationships, risk-taking, soulmates, waiting-for-true-love

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#17

“I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.”
― Robert Browning

tags: forever, true-love, waiting-for-true-love

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#18

“Don't rush into love. You'll find the person meant for you when you least expect it.”
― Franzie Gubatina

tags: waiting-for-true-love

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#19

“Trust the almighty. He'll open up the right door at the right time”
― sophieya

tags: almighty-support, trust-quotes, waiting-for-the-right-person, waiting-for-true-love, waiting-quotations, waiting-quotes

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#20

“Hearts will break and people will hurt you, darling.” Her mother said. “But when you let those people control your outlook on the life, you only allow them to have a greater hold on your happiness. Once you accept the fact that every day is a new day to begin again, life becomes a much easier path to walk.”
― Courtney Giardina, Holding on to Georgia

tags: believe, finding-love, happiness, lessons, lessons-in-life, lessons-learned, second-chances

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#21

“One does not seek love,' she told him, 'it should find you all on it's own”
― Barbara Lieberman, The Treasure of Ravenwood

tags: fairy-tale, finding-love, love, love-quotes

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#22

“Maybe that’s why I wanted to get lost somewhere, because I wanted to be found.”
― Corey M.P., Hearts and Errors

tags: adventure, finding-love, love, paris

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#23

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: prejudice, pride, vanity

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#24

“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: anne-eliot, good-company, jane-austen, persuasion

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#25

“A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: knowledge, women

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#26

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
― Jane Austen

tags: friendship

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#27

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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#28

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: hope, inevitability, spring

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#29

“Keep the faith. The vision is always for the appointed time. Be patient, prayerful and wait for the fulfillment of your visions.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

tags: answers-to-prayer, answers-to-prayers, appointed-time, dreams, dreams-come-true, dreams-quotes, faith, faith-in-god, faith-in-yourself, faith-quotes, fasting, fulfill, fulfilled, fulfilling-purpose, fulfilling-your-destiny, fulfilling-your-potential, life, moments-quotes, patient, patient-in-life, patient-problems, prayer, prayer-life, prayerful-habits, prayers-answered, time, time-travel, vision, vision-dream, vision-quote, vision-quotes, visions-in-life, visions-of-the-prophet, waiting, waiting-for-you, waiting-on-god, worship

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#30

“No. Don’t never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It’ll come. Like the rain fallin’ from the heaven, it’ll come. Just don’t never give up on love.”
― Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

tags: love, waiting

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#31

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

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