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  • #1
    “the stars began to burn
    through the sheets of clouds,
    and there was a new voice
    which you slowly
    recognized as your own”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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  • #2
    “Still, what I want in my life
    is to be willing
    to be dazzled—
    to cast aside the weight of facts

    and maybe even
    to float a little
    above this difficult world.”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
    796 likes

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  • #3
    Deb Caletti
    “Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.”
    ― Deb Caletti, The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
    tags: bigger, depth, growing, people, preserve, shallow, world
    42 likes

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  • #4
    Sylvia Plath
    “The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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  • #6
    Sylvia Plath
    “What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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  • #7
    Coco Chanel
    “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: art, creativity, life, love, monotony, passion, time, variety, work
    639 likes

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  • #8
    Martha Graham
    “Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.”
    ― Martha Graham
    tags: dance, passion
    662 likes

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  • #9
    Aberjhani
    “If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?”
    ― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
    tags: famous-quotations, famous-quotes, love, mysticism, passion, poetry, quotes-about-love, relationships, romance, roses, spirituality, valentine-s-day
    177 likes

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  • #10
    George Sand
    “The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine”
    ― George Sand
    tags: passion
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  • #11
    Cameron Conaway
    “I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.”
    ― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
    tags: fire, intensity, passion
    80 likes

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  • #12
    Cameron Conaway
    “Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure.”
    ― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
    tags: failing, give-up, quit, smart
    70 likes

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    Cameron Conaway
    “It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.”
    ― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
    tags: reason, roots, war
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  • #14
    Cameron Conaway
    “If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.”
    ― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
    tags: humor, inspiration, pain
    20 likes

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  • #15
    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore
    21623 likes

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  • #16
    Bette Midler
    “Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”
    ― Bette Midler
    tags: misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe
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  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: greatness
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  • #18
    “Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.”
    ― Mary Oliver
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  • #19
    “But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive. ”
    ― Mary Oliver
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  • #20
    “The Old Poets Of China

    Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
    It offers me its busyness. It does not believe
    that I do not want it. Now I understand
    why the old poets of China went so far and high
    into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.”
    ― Mary Oliver, Why I Wake Early
    tags: poetry, solitude
    159 likes

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  • #21
    “It's not a competition, it's a doorway.”
    ― Mary Oliver
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  • #22
    Kobayashi Issa
    “Summer night--
    even the stars
    are whispering to each other.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa
    tags: poetry
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  • #23
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    ― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus
    tags: poetry
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  • #24
    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: poetry
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  • #25
    Marc Wambolt
    “I may not always be with you
    But when we're far apart
    Remember you will be with me
    Right inside my heart”
    ― Marc Wambolt, Poems from the Heart
    1518 likes

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  • #26
    Santosh Kalwar
    “If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar
    tags: eyes, joy, pain, poetry, share, smile, tears
    892 likes

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  • #27
    Bill Maher
    “I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.”
    ― Bill Maher
    tags: bible, bill-of-rights, christianity, constitution, politics, religion
    371 likes

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  • #28
    Brian Tracy
    “The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a
    new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be
    released and channeled toward some great good.
    ”
    ― Brian Tracy
    tags: courage, inspiration, potential
    125 likes

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  • #29
    “I wish I was your favorite girl, I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world, I wish I was your favorite smile, I wish the way I dressed was your favorite kind of style”
    ― Kate Nash
    tags: new-love, nice, potential
    28 likes

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  • #30
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: potential
    39 likes



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