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    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
    tags: hope, light
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    Leonard Cohen
    “The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
    tags: insomnia, sleeping-world, superiority
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  • #3
    Leonard Cohen
    “Never make a decision when you need to pee.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
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  • #4
    Leonard Cohen
    “Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game
    tags: regrets, scars, wounds
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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  • #6
    Leonard Cohen
    “I don't remember
    lighting this cigarette
    and I don't remember
    if I'm here alone
    or waiting for someone.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
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  • #7
    Leonard Cohen
    “Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
    Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
    Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
    Dance me to the end of love ”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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  • #8
    Leonard Cohen
    “first of all nothing will happen
    and a little later
    nothing will happen again”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
    tags: cohen, leonard, poetry
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  • #9
    Leonard Cohen
    “... i didn't fall in love of course
    it's never up to you
    but she was walking back and forth
    and i was passing through”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
    tags: falling-in-love, love
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  • #10
    Leonard Cohen
    “It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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  • #11
    Leonard Cohen
    “Don't call yourself a secret
    unless you mean to keep it.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems 1956-1968
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  • #12
    Leonard Cohen
    “I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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  • #13
    Leonard Cohen
    “Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
    tags: reality
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  • #14
    Leonard Cohen
    “You go your way
    I'll go your way too”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
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  • #15
    Leonard Cohen
    “I'm planning a catastrophe.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game
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  • #16
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #17
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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  • #18
    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational
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  • #19
    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people
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  • #20
    Maya Angelou
    “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination
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  • #21
    Maya Angelou
    “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #22
    Maya Angelou
    “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: loneliness, music, refuge
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  • #23
    Maya Angelou
    “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #24
    Maya Angelou
    “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #25
    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
    7605 likes

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  • #26
    Maya Angelou
    “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspirational
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  • #27
    Maya Angelou
    “Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
    I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
    But when I start to tell them,
    They think I'm telling lies.
    I say,
    It's in the reach of my arms
    The span of my hips,
    The stride of my step,
    The curl of my lips.
    I'm a woman
    Phenomenally.
    Phenomenal woman,
    That's me.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
    tags: phenomenal-woman
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  • #28
    Maya Angelou
    “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: ambition, inspirational, wisdom
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  • #29
    Maya Angelou
    “Out of the huts of history's shame
    I rise
    Up from a past that's rooted in pain
    I rise
    I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
    Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
    Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
    I rise
    Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
    I rise
    Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
    I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
    I rise
    I rise
    I rise.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: poem
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  • #30
    Maya Angelou
    “Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: aging, growing-up
    1687 likes



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