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#2

“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

tags: patience-and-love

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#3

“The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have come from and where we are going to, for sifting through the things we have done and the things we have left undone for a clue to who we are and who, for better or worse, we are becoming. But again and again we avoid the long thoughts….We cling to the present out of wariness of the past. And why not, after all? We get confused. We need such escape as we can find. But there is a deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need—not all the time, surely, but from time to time—to enter that still room within us all where the past lives on as a part of the present, where the dead are alive again, where we are most alive ourselves to turnings and to where our journeys have brought us. The name of the room is Remember—the room where with patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived.”
― Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces – Essays and Sermons on Faith, Love, and the Power of Words

tags: memory, remembering, remembrance

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#4

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life

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#5

“We're always taught that God wants us to always only say "I can't do this without You God" , "Whatever your will is God, that's my will too" but God says He is a father, and there is no good father who wants his children to have no will and to think that they can't stand on their own two feet. So maybe what you should be saying is "I can do it" and "I have a strong will, I know what I want." When you think God's left you and wants you to be sitting like a duck, maybe He's actually believing in you, teaching you how to fly.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: a-great-father, a-vision-of-god, believe-in-yourself, god, have-a-strong-will, inspirational-life, inspirational-life-faith, inspirational-living, inspirational-spiritual, self-worth, strong-will, strong-willed, the-nature-of-god, understanding-the-nature-of-god, what-a-good-father-is-like, wisdom-inspirational, wisdom-quotes

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#6

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

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#8

“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: chords, edge, emptiness, loop, signs, space, substance, world

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#9

“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#10

“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”
― Karl Lagerfeld

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#10

“I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness."

Tessa looked at will. "What about you? What do you believe?

"Pulvis et umbra sumus," said Will, not looking at her as he spoke. "I believe we are dust and shadows. What else is there?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: religion, young-adults-fantasy

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#11

“What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

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#12

“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”
― Ayn Rand

tags: achievement, admiration, atlas-shrugged, inspirational, love, objectivism

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#14

“She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: deep-thoughts, inspirational

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#16

“Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendship, camaraderie, intimacy, all those things, and loneliness lived together in the same experience.”
― Rich Mullins

tags: attachment, friendship, isolation, loneliness

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#17

“If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

tags: 618, happiness, oromis-to-eragon

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#18

“I don't believe that anyone who is a legitimately interesting person can be popular as a teenager," Mel went on. "Or ever, maybe. Popularity rewards the uninteresting.”
― Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

tags: popularity

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#19

“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”
― Daniel Wallace, The Kings and Queens of Roam

tags: ambition, failure, hope, mistakes, new-day, past, persistence, perspective, quixotic

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#20

“She thought now it was time to be tested, to make decisions and find her own roads, to stop falling where she was told to fall and to stand only when allowed to stand.”
― Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

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#21

“That proves you are unusual," returned the Scarecrow; "and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz

tags: inspirational, random, unusual, weird

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#22

“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

tags: dunces, genius, stupidity

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#23

“My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

tags: dejan-stojanovic, feelings, literature, literature-quotes, loud, poetry-quotes, quotes, shy, shyness, thoughts, wisdom, words, world

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#24

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”
― Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China

tags: travel

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#25

“Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

tags: inspirational, passion

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#26

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

tags: acceptance, life, love, worth

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#27

“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
― Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale

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#28

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

1551 likes

#29

“Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: bond, connection, harmony, relationships, soulmate, soulmates

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#30

“Imagination governs the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: art, imagination

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#31

“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

tags: jodi-lynn-anderson, tiger-lily, tinker-bell

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#32

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: art, baudelaire, beauty, life

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#33

“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”
― Robert M. Pirsig

tags: living, purpose

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