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    Donald Miller
    “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
    ― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
    8518 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: nagasawa
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
    tags: isolation, loneliness, sadness
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    Haruki Murakami
    “It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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    Haruki Murakami
    “But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    tags: loneliness
    2110 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Whether by chance conjunction or not, the “wind-up bird” was a powerful presence in Cinnamon’s story. The cry of this bird was audible only to certain special people, who were guided by it toward inescapable ruin. The will of human beings meant nothing, then, as the veterinarian always seemed to feel. People were no more than dolls set on tabletops, the springs in their backs wound up tight, dolls set to move in ways they could not choose, moving in directions they could not choose. Nearly all within range of the wind-up bird’s cry were ruined, lost. Most of them died, plunging over the edge of the table.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, living-life-to-the-fullest, loving-life, self-love, self-value, self-worth, the-value-of-life, valuing-life, valuing-oneself
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  • #12
    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
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    Jay Asher
    “A lot of you cared, just not enough.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
    tags: apathy, suicide, tragedy
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    Haruki Murakami
    “As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
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    David Sedaris
    “If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
    ― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
    tags: sympathy
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
    tags: loss, love
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
    I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
    ― jonathan safran foer
    tags: desperate, life, losing, love, nostalgia, pain, regret, solitude
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could…”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
    tags: fear-of-failure
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  • #24
    Spencer Johnson
    “What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
    ― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
    tags: fearlessness
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  • #25
    Joseph Chilton Pearce
    “To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.”
    ― Joseph Chilton Pearce
    tags: being-wrong, creativity, fear-of-failure
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    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: freedom, truth
    3018 likes

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  • #27
    Charles Baudelaire
    “It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
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  • #28
    John Lennon
    “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
    ― John Lennon
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  • #29
    Criss Jami
    “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: art, artist, artistic, contemplating, dreams, experience, fantasy, fun, imagination, life, perception, perspective, poetry, reading, reality, solitude, songwriting, thinking, thoughts, universe, vicarious, writing
    1257 likes

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  • #30
    Arundhati Roy
    “If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: dreaming, happyiness
    855 likes



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