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#1

“One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: pleasure, suffering

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#2

“Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you’re there. They will become homes for you, spaces of solace and comfort, where you can close your eyes and go to. Nothing you experience will ever go away. It belongs to you now. Just feel. Don’t be afraid to feel.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

tags: afraid, belong, belonging, experience, eyes, feel, go-home, home, joy, memory, missing, remember

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#3

“Hygge is a quality of presence and an experience of togetherness. It is a feeling of being warm, safe, comforted and sheltered.
Hygge is an experience of selfhood and communion with people and places that anchors and affirms us, gives us courage and consolation.
To hygge is to invite intimacy and connection. It's a feeling of engagement and relatedness, of belonging to the moment and to each other.
Hygge is a sense of abundance and contentment.
Hygge is about being not having.”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

tags: abundance, being, belong, connection, contentment, engage, feeling, hygge, relate, togetherness

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#4

“it's okay to put yourself first
trust you heart
to guide you back to where you belong”
― Nhung Hoang, amalgam of ideas and simplicity

tags: belong, heart, poetry, trust

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#5

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
― George Eliot

tags: hunger, living, longing, wish, wishing

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#6

“I wonder
if you ever read my poems
and wish
they were written
for you.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: boyfriend, break-up, girlfriend, heartbreak, heartbroken, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, longing, love, love-lost, love-poem, loved, lover, miss, missing, poem, poet, poetry, quote, relationships, short-poem, wonder, write, writing, written, wrote, yearning

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#7

“I live in a house of secrets, but I’ve unlocked a few rooms for you”
― john j geddes

tags: secrets

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#8

“I believe in love at first sight…
But it’s not the first moment you lay eyes on a person, it’s the moment you first see
the person they truly are.”
― Ranata Suzuki

tags: always-yours, amour, beautiful, beautiful-quote, deep-love, deep-love-quotes, deep-thoughts, desire, devotion, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, longing, love, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, lust, paramour, passion, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, romance, romanticism, secret-love, the-only-one

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#9

“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye and the letting go.”
― Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990

tags: letting-go-of-the-past, longing, lost-love, poetry, yearning

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#10

“I am torn and I am mended - I want everything and need nothing - I love you and am content without you.

Even so, come quickly!”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

tags: content, feminism, longing, love, mended, self-reliance, torn

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#11

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

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#13

“Perhaps it was the same with freedom as it was with everything else that was taken for granted. Only with its loss could you gain the ability to really understand its real value.”
― Karin Alvtegen

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#14

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: beauty, birds, nature, poetry, shore, woods

5440 likes

#15

“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: be-yourself, life, self-determination

3304 likes

#16

“There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: cat, cat-s, cradle, kurt, vonnegut

604 likes

#17

“No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's . . ."
"And?"
"No damn cat, and no damn cradle.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: humor

454 likes

#18

“God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the
sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look
around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly
couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way I can feel the least bit important is to
think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and
look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honor!
Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
I will go to heaven now.
I can hardly wait...
To find out for certain what my wampeter was...
And who was in my karass...
And all the good things our karass did for you.
Amen.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: vonnegut

345 likes

#19

“Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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#20

“You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: death, forget, life, vonnegut

264 likes

#21

“Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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#22

“How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle

tags: cat, cat-s, cradle, kurt, vonnegut

169 likes

#23

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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#24

“No damn cat, and no damn cradle.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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#25

“Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: cat-s-cradle, kurt-vonnegut, maturity

52 likes

#26

“Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: inspirational

54 likes

#27

“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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#28

“Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it’ll be her wings not her face that’ll make my mouth fall open. I’ve already seen the prettiest face that ever could be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: angel, beauty, love

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#29

“Pretty, was she?"

"Pretty?" he echoed. "Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings and not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: beauty, heaven, love, obsession, women

9 likes