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#1

“I like stories where women save themselves.”
― Neil gaiman, The Sleeper and the Spindle

tags: fairy-tales

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#2

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

1688 likes

#3

“Once you label me you negate me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: labels, stereotypes

715 likes

#3

“Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure.
I'm sure you remember, I was on the phone with you, sweetheart.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

tags: poetry

55 likes

#4

“but more frequently I was finding myself sleepless and he was running out of lullabies”
― Richard Siken, Crush

6 likes

#5

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

tags: truth

3998 likes

#6

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism

2620 likes

#7

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge

2256 likes

#8

“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: corpse, incarnation, mind-over-body, soul

547 likes

#9

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

4203 likes

#10

“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

494 likes

#11

“Oh, the things we invent when we are scared
and want to be rescued.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

tags: fear, poetry

262 likes

#12

“And the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

223 likes

#13

“We laugh & it pits the world against us.”
― Richard Siken

156 likes

#15

“O how he loves you, darling boy. Oh how, like always, he invents the monsters underneath the bed to get you to sleep next to him, chest to chest or chest to back, the covers drawn around you in an act of faith against the night.”
― Richard Siken

49 likes

#16

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46485 likes

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