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  • #1
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #2
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #3
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #4
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Be Unrealistic (The Sonnet)

    Be unrealistic and work for a world,
    That the society considers nonsense.
    Once upon a time taming fire was unreal,
    Then arose a bunch of brave sentience.
    Today's madness is tomorrow's sanity,
    If we’re mad enough to stand solo on guard.
    Today's sacrifice is tomorrow's civilization,
    If we can give all without hoping reward.
    If only one person dies for the cause,
    A hundred people realize their humanity.
    I may die today in the line of duty,
    But the struggle continues through eternity.
    So let us be brave and go beyond reality.
    Let us be accountable and do the necessary.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

  • #5
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #6
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #7
    E.E. Cummings
    “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
    I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
    I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
    and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

    here is the deepest secret nobody knows
    (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
    higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
    and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

    I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #8
    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

  • #9
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams

  • #10
    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #11
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

  • #12
    William Ernest Henley
    “Out of the night that covers me,
    Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
    I thank whatever gods may be
    For my unconquerable soul.

    In the fell clutch of circumstance
    I have not winced nor cried aloud.
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
    My head is bloody, but unbowed.

    Beyond this place of wrath and tears
    Looms but the Horror of the shade,
    And yet the menace of the years
    Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

    It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul.”
    William Ernest Henley, Invictus

  • #13
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
    Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #14
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #15
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
    Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

  • #16
    Kahlil Gibran
    “I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”
    Khalil Gibran

  • #17
    Amanda Lovelace
    “wishing upon
    every shooting star isn’t
    the way your dreams
    will come true.

    taking your fate
    into your own hands
    is how dreams
    will come true.

    so
    work hard.
    work harder.
    work even harder.

    -make it happen.”
    Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers

  • #18
    Amanda Lovelace
    “be stronger than the villains. be every storybook heroine come to life.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One

  • #19
    Amanda Lovelace
    “be
    victorious
    in
    everything
    you do.
    disturb the gods,
    if that's what
    it takes.
    & maybe
    especially then.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One

  • #20
    Amanda Lovelace
    “Most stories don't have a clear, defined message.
    they aren't supposed to.
    we must take
    the good
    with the bad
    with the grey
    & decide what we
    want to do with it all.
    - i'm still alive & therefore so is hope.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One

  • #21
    Amanda Lovelace
    “you are so much more than the rippling fallacies
    your reflection whispers to you.
    those demons that lurk beneath the surface
    do not know you
    even though they pretend to.
    and someday,
    though it feels impossible,
    you will see yourself as i do.
    when time has finally finished healing your scars,
    your siren call will scream 'I AM GOOD ENOUGH!'
    and even your bewitching smile will shine through.
    but until that day, the day you are okay, just keep singing yourself to sleep.
    And eventually, your monsters will stop haunting you.
    - trust me.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One

  • #22
    Amanda Lovelace
    “you are sad now.
    you are not sad forever.
    there are no paved roads
    to healing.
    you must build one
    brick by brick.
    there will be backtracks before breakthroughs but-
    you must collapse
    into yourself
    before rebuilding.
    you must unearth
    every wound
    before learning the power of salt.
    you will build that yellow brick road-
    in your own time and
    on your own terms.
    - the grit of healing.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One

  • #23
    Amanda Lovelace
    “write the story.
    push your hands into the dirtiest parts of yourself.
    take the rot & decay & turn it into nourishment & life.
    water it & sing to it & show it sunlight.
    grow a beautiful garden from your aching & teach yourself how to thrive from it.
    write your story.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

  • #24
    Amanda Lovelace
    “if
    the very
    idea
    of
    standing up
    for myself
    frightens you
    so
    damn much
    then
    i guess
    the power
    you thought
    you held
    over ome
    wasn't that
    impressive
    in the
    first place.

    -fragile masculinity”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One

  • #25
    Amanda Lovelace
    “The pain did not make me a better person. It did not teach me not to take anything for granted. It did not teach me anything except how to be afraid to love anyone.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

  • #26
    Amanda Lovelace
    “telling me
    not all men
    have
    bad intentions

    doesn't do
    anything to
    reassure
    me.

    after i
    walk away from you,
    nothing will have
    changed.

    i will still
    be scared to
    leave my house
    after sundown.

    i will still
    find comfort
    in keys resting
    between fingers,

    i will still
    question
    the intentoins of
    every man i know

    i will still
    wonder
    when i am
    to become

    a story
    meant to warn
    other people's
    daughters,

    & i will still
    cry when i turn on
    the television
    to find

    yet
    another man
    getting away
    with

    well--
    what they
    always seem to
    get away with.

    i am not
    the one who
    has to change
    the way i think
    or the way i act.
    they are.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One

  • #27
    Amanda Lovelace
    “if i ever
    have a
    daughter,
    the first
    thing
    i will
    teach her
    to love
    will be
    the word
    "no"
    &
    i will
    not
    let her feel
    guilty for using
    it.

    ⎻"no" is short for "fuck off.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

  • #28
    Amanda Lovelace
    “to be a
    woman
    is to be
    warbound,
    k n o w i n g
    all the odds
    are stacked
    against you.

    - & never giving up in spite of it.
    Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One

  • #29
    Amanda Lovelace
    “That is what abuse is:
    knowing you are
    going to get salt
    but still hoping for sugar
    for nineteen years.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

  • #30
    Amanda Lovelace
    “Let it guide you into a grand love affair with yourself. Until the love becomes so second nature you need it no more.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One



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