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#1

“People treat you differently when you're the opposite of what they want you to be, when you're nothing like them, when you don't live up to their expectations. You become reprehensible in their eyes, They compare you to others, They wish the cessation of your existence, You are a mere trifle to them.
LIFE GOES ON”
― Kevin E. K. Phillip

tags: life-quotes

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#2

“Why people bluff to test the strength of their significant other by acting displeased or even allowing close friends to seduce them. "You don't know what you have until it's gone". Truth is, you knew what you had, you just thought you'd never lose it. Just move on.”
― Kevin E. K. Phillip

tags: relationship-advice-quotes

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#3

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

tags: misattributed-einstein

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#4

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: love

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#5

“I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equate the idea of connection and love with trauma and death.”
― Zachary Quinto

tags: abuse-survivors, attraction, avoiding-commitment, avoiding-pain, dysfunctional-love, dysfunctional-relationship, healing-insights, relationship-problems, self-protection, trauma, traumatized

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#6

“We have become a nation of thoughtless rushers, intent on doing before thinking, and hoping what we do magically works out. If it doesn’t, we rush to do something else, something also not well thought-out, and then hope for more magic.”
― Len Holman

tags: busyness, contemplation, impulsive, impulsivity, life, life-and-living, modern-life, stupidity, thinking, thought, thoughtless

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#7

“Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you did
My heart fly to your service, there resides
to make me slave to it, and for your sake
Am I this patient log-man.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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#8

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

tags: education

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#9

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: johngreen, lookingforalaska

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#10

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#11

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#13

“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow to the Sea

tags: expectations, powerful, silence

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#14

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."

[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]”
― Stephen W. Hawking

tags: appreciation, carpe-diem, expectations, gratitude, life, misfortunes, spirit, strength, unbreakable-spirit

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#15

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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#16

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

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#17

“It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

tags: lock-and-key

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#18

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: love

3880 likes

#19

“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

tags: hope, mail

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#20

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: emotion, heartbreak, lost-love, love, parting

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#21

“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”
― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

tags: hope

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#22

“When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

tags: inspirational, life

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#23

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#24

“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

5886 likes

#25

“Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#26

“Being done and out is inconceivable, when you find out the people around is just misleading you. Trying to make a living, remain spiritual.
Egotistical ways you must embrace.”
― Kevin E. K. Phillip

tags: life-quotes-and-sayings

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#27

“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: action, actions, communication, curiosity, honest, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, integrity, integrity-quotes, leadership, life, life-quotes, listen, listening, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, speak, speaking

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#28

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all
of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
― Leo F. Buscaglia

tags: caring, compliment, kind-word, life, listen, potential, power, smile, touch

756 likes

#29

“Envy is the desire to have what someone else has. Jealousy is the fear of losing what you have. The more insecure you are about yourself or your relationship, the more jealous you are, because you are afraid to lose your significant other to someone else.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends

tags: abandonment, envy, fear-of-abandonment, insecurity, jealousy, relationships

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#30

“She was strikingly ignorant, but he had known that from the start. What he had not known was how quickly her ignorance would cease to seem charming and would begin to seem contemptible.”
― Robert Silverberg, Thorns

tags: relationship-problems

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#31

“Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.”
― Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life

tags: eye-opening, learning, realisation, truth

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