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    “I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is the way people look when they are lost in thought, when their face becomes angry or serious, when they bite their lip, the way they glance, the way they look down when they walk, when they are alone and smoking a cigarette, when they smirk, the way they half smile, the way they try and hold back tears, the way when their face says they want to say something but can’t, the way they look at someone they want or love… I love the way people look when they do these things. It’s… beautiful.”
    ― Clemence Poésy
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    Barack Obama
    “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: determination, helping-others, hope, initiative, just-do-it, proactivity, service, volunteerism, work
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    Gautama Buddha
    “In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”
    ― Gautama Buddha
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: heartache, love
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
    life.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
    tags: love
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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  • #7
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett
    tags: hope, inspirational
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: patience-and-love
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    Martina Boone
    “We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.”
    ― Martina Boone, Compulsion
    tags: compulsion, love, martina-boone, patience-and-love, real-love, relationships, relationships-love, time-passing
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    Criss Jami
    “The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: compassion, consideration, consideration-of-others, empathy, funny, funny-but-true, hard, hard-heart, hard-hearted, heart, humor, joy, kindness, love, nice, odd, paradox, patience, patience-and-love, pity, selflessness, sense-of-humor, soft, soft-heart, soft-hearted, strange, sympathy, weird
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  • #11
    “It is important to be Intuitive at this time and allow the natural course to show you the way to the next step.”
    ― Oscar Auliq-Ice
    tags: patience, patience-and-criticism, patience-and-love, waiting
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    Martina Boone
    “Things, and people, were always more beautiful when you were afraid to lose them.”
    ― Martina Boone, Compulsion
    tags: beauty, people
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  • #13
    Ernest Hemingway
    “You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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  • #14
    Nelson Mandela
    “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: choices, fear, hope
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    Tove Jansson
    “The quiet transition from autumn to winter is not a bad time at all. It's a time for protecting and securing things and for making sure you've got in as many supplies as you can. It's nice to gather together everything you possess as close to you as possible, to store up your warmth and your thoughts and burrow yourself into a deep hole inside, a core of safety where you can defend what is important and precious and your very own. Then the cold and the storms and the darkness can do their worst. They can grope their way up the walls looking for a way in, but they won't find one, everything is shut, and you sit inside, laughing in your warmth and your solitude, for you have had foresight.”
    ― Tove Jansson, Moominvalley in November
    tags: coziness, seasons
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    Albert Camus
    “Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: existentialism, hope, philosophy
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    Pablo Picasso
    “If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, creativity
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    E.E. Cummings
    “may my heart always be open to little
    birds who are the secrets of living
    whatever they sing is better than to know
    and if men should not hear them men are old

    may my mind stroll about hungry
    and fearless and thirsty and supple
    and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
    for whenever men are right they are not young

    and may myself do nothing usefully
    and love yourself so more than truly
    there's never been quite such a fool who could fail
    pulling all the sky over him with one smile”
    ― E.E. Cummings, E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
    tags: poetry, youth
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  • #19
    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    ― Colette
    tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom
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    Colette
    “Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”
    ― Colette
    tags: cats, company, time, waste
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  • #21
    Pablo Neruda
    “I want
    To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love
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  • #22
    Victor Hugo
    “Respirer Paris, cela conserve l'âme.”
    ― Victor Hugo
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  • #23
    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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  • #24
    William Gibson
    “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
    ― William Gibson
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  • #25
    Emily Dickinson
    “I felt it shelter to speak to you.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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  • #26
    Arthur Golden
    “We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: geisha, life
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    Arthur Golden
    “A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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  • #28
    Arthur Golden
    “If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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  • #29
    Arthur Golden
    “Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about.
    [Mameha]”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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  • #30
    Colette
    “So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.”
    ― Colette, The Vagabond
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