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#1

“Las plantas y las Flores murmuraban frente a él como si el ritmo al que bailaban tuviese la meca de la eternidad, cuando al fin y al cabo eran tan efímeras como la brisa que las agitaba.”
― José Rodrigues dos Santos

tags: forgetting, life-lessons, life-philosophy

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#2

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: grief, loss, recovery

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#3

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

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#4

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

tags: forgiveness, grudges, revenge, spite

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#5

“No" is a complete sentence.”
― Annie Lamott

tags: boundaries

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#6

“It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

tags: coping, life

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#7

“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: forgiveness

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#8

“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-life

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#9

“Sunt uneori stări care parcă îşi pierd durata. Nu ştii - sau nu-ţi aduci aminte - când au început, ce le-a dezlănţuit, cum se transformă. Şi totuşi, din beatitudinea aceea turbure se desprinde uneori un cuvânt, un strigăt, o melodie sau măcar o singură notă muzicală, care îţi rămâne necontenit prezentă, fără să te mire precaritatea sau chiar nesemnificaţia ei.”
― Mircea Eliade, Nuntă în cer

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#10

“It's not that I can't live without you; it's that I don't want to. There's a difference. We all make choices in life and I choose you.

My heart belongs to you. And I'm not asking for it back, even if you won't want it anymore. I'm just asking for a chance to have your again. I promise I'll be more careful with it this time.”
― J. Sterling, The Perfect Game

tags: chance, choice, heart, love, mature-ya, promise

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#11

“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

tags: mind, new-ideas

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#12

“Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity.”
― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

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#13

“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

tags: mental, mind, mystery, rebellion, sherlock-holmes, stagnation

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#14

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood

tags: change, mind, summer, winter

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#15

“Each thinking mind is a political mind.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

tags: each, mind, politics, thinking

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#16

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
― Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle

tags: energy, essence, life-lessons, mind

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#17

“I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

tags: alone, breaking-up, change, charlotte-eriksson, growing-up, heart-break, impressed, life, love, mind, moving-on, people, places, poetry, prose, the-glass-child, youth

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#18

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]”
― Barbara Tuchman

tags: books, civilization, humanity, literature, mind, thought

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#19

“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”
― J. Krishnamurti

tags: meditation, mind, peace

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#20

“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

tags: beauty, mind, real, what-is-on-the-inside

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#21

“Where to look if you've lost your mind?”
― Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

tags: crazy, insanity, mind, sanity

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#22

“You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive, or in my case "head drive" that starts the corruption of the files.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

tags: childhood, children, corruption, knowledge, mind, nikki-sixx, youth

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#23

“I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I mess up the laundry, don’t answer my phone and blame the world when something goes wrong. I think I have a dream, but most of the days I’m still sleeping. The grass is cut. It smells like strawberries. Today I finished four books and cleaned my drawers.
Do you believe in a God? Can I tell you about Icarus? How he flew too close to the sun?

I want to make coming home your favourite part of the day. I want to leave tiny little words lingering in your mind, on nights when you’re far away and can’t sleep. I want to make everything around us beautiful; make small things mean a little more. Make you feel a little more. A little better, a little lighter. The coffee is warm, this cup is yours. I want to be someone you can’t live without.

I want to be someone you can’t live without.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss

tags: afternoon, beautiful, believe, blame, books, can-t-sleep, clean, close-to-the-sun, clumsy, coffee

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#24

“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: mind, psychology

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#25

“Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: absurd, absurdity, art, artist, ecstasy, experiment, experimentation, insane, insanity, intellectual, intellectualism, intelligence, madness, mind, out-of-my-mind, outrageous, philosophy, theory, thinking, thought, too-much

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#26

“ONE BUT MANY

One God, many faces.
One family, many races.
One truth, many paths.
One heart, many complexions.
One light, many reflections.
One world, many imperfections.
ONE.
We are all one,
But many.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: complexions, divide, earth, faces, family, global-peace, god, heart, humanity, humans, imperfection, light, love, mankind, many, mind, mirrors, one, parts, paths, race, races, refelections, root-races, sum, temples, tribes, truth, truthism, united, unity, universal, universal-love, we-are-one, world

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#27

“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: inspirational, life-and-living, life-lessons

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#28

“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”
― Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

tags: coffee

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#29

“I miss your voice because it is a symphony; your scent because it is a treasure; your smile because it is a jewel; your hug because it is a masterpiece; and your kiss because it is a miracle.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: courtship-quotes, dating-quotes, falling-in-love-quotes, hug-quotes, jewel-quotes, kiss-quotes, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-saying, love-quotes-and-sayings, love-quotes-for-everybody, lovers-quotes, masterpiece-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, miracle-quotes, miss-quotes, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, romance-quotes, romance-quotes-and-sayings, romantic-quotes, romantic-quotes-for-girlfriend, scent, smile-quotations, smile-quotes, sweet-romance, treasure-quotes

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#30

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, journey, reading, travel

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