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#1

“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

tags: being-human, goodness, human, human-nature, humanism, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, kindness, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, living, love, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, smile, smiles

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#2

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

tags: humanism, jimi-hendrix, love, mahatma-gandhi, peace, philosophy, power

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#3

“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

tags: existentialism, humanism, post-modernism

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#4

“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

tags: accountability, human-rights, humanist, humanitarian-crisis, poetry, reformer, social-justice, social-work, sonnet, world-building

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#5

“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

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#6

“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

tags: love, poetry

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#7

“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

tags: love, poetry

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#8

“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

tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom

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#9

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

tags: night, poetry

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#10

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

tags: poetry

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#11

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

tags: poetry

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#12

“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

tags: 1875, invictus, nelson-mandela, poetry

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#13

“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

tags: love, marriage

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#14

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

tags: inner-beauty, nobility-of-spirit, soulful

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#15

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

tags: generosity, pride

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#16

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

tags: wisdom

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#17

“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

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#18

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

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#19

“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

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#20

“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

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#21

“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

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#22

“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

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#23

“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

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#24

“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

tags: fragile-masculinity, standing-up-for-myself

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#25

“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

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#26

“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

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#27

“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

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#28

“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

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#29

“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

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#30

“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

tags: love, self-love

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