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    Richard Puz
    “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
    From an Irish headstone”
    ― Richard Puz, The Carolinian
    tags: death, death-and-love, death-of-a-loved-one, eternal-love, healing, healing-the-past, heartache-love, heartbreak, love-hurts, memorial, memories, memory
    782 likes

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    John Green
    “The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: memories
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
    21620 likes

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    Mother Teresa
    “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
    ― Mother Theresa
    tags: carpe-diem, future, past, present, time
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    Pope John Paul II
    “The future starts today, not tomorrow.”
    ― Pope John Paul II
    tags: carpe-diem, future, present, time
    625 likes

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    Stephen Baxter
    “Let me face bare-handed a dozen highly trained and fully armed gladiators, each with a personal grudge against me, than a lawyer with a single pointed question.”
    ― Stephen Baxter, Ultima
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    Stephen Baxter
    “Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.”
    ― Stephen Baxter, Proxima
    tags: adversity, stars
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    Stephen Baxter
    “Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and the next.”
    ― Stephen Baxter, Proxima
    tags: door, one-way
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  • #9
    “There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

    Morpheus, The Matrix”
    ― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script
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    Liu Cixin
    “Time is the cruelest force of all.”
    ― Cixin Liu, Death's End
    tags: cruel, eternity, force, time
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    Liu Cixin
    “In the eternal night of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, two civilization had swept through like two shooting stars, and the universe had remembered their light.”
    ― Liu Cixin, Death's End
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    Simone Weil
    “Love is not consolation. It is light.”
    ― Simone Weil
    tags: light, love
    335 likes

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    “How we begin and how we end any relationship is a product of planning, fortuity, and personality. Many enterprises commenced in good faith spiral into confusion, discord, and disarray, generate turmoil and corruption, sunburn the sensitive parties, and conclude in a cesspool of regret and animosity.”
    ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
    tags: animosity, animosity-quotes, beginnings, ending-relationships, endings, regret, working-together
    5 likes

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    Kate McGahan
    “Oh it was meant to be. It just wasn't meant to last.”
    ― Kate McGahan
    tags: ending-relationships, meant-to-be, meant-to-be-quotes
    24 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adversity, deserving-respect, divorce, ending-relationships, finding-joy, finding-peace, freedom, great-value, growth, happiness, hell, journeys, joy, knowing-your-worth, letting-go, moving-on, pain, painful-situations, putting-up, respect, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-help, self-imposed, self-imposed-pain, self-realization, self-respect, self-worth, struggles, too-little, too-long, value, walking, worth, worthiness
    73 likes

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    Johnny Depp
    “if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”
    ― Johnny Depp
    tags: relationship
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  • #17
    “At the beginning, we were all strangers.
    In the end, we all end up strangers.
    Again and again.
    It's a hidden memory somewhere in the Universe, somewhere in your eyes.”
    ― Tony Tzo
    tags: eyes, love, mystery, phylosophy, romance, strangers, universe-quotes
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    Sarah Dunn
    “Ordinarily, I am the person who falls in love quickly and somewhat inappropriately and then goes on to destroy what is a good thing. That's always been my style. So, you know: I get it. And I feel right now the way I imagine all those guys felt with me. And I have to say, for the first time in my life, I feel something approaching compassion for them.”
    ― Sarah Dunn, Secrets to Happiness
    tags: dating, love, relationships
    56 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: advice, bran, bran-stark, darkness, the-greenseer
    237 likes

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    Margaret Stohl
    “Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.”
    ― Margaret Stohl
    tags: beautiful-darkness, darkness, hope
    174 likes

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    Kamand Kojouri
    “Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.”
    ― Kamand Kojouri
    tags: betray, betrayal, bullies, bully, bullying, burn, cheat, cheater, corrupt, cynical, cynics, dark, darkness, hateful, hostile, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, liar, light, lying, malevolent, malicious, negative, negative-people, negativity, pessimistic, pessimists, spiteful, toxic, toxic-people, toxicity, vengeful, vicious, vindictive
    297 likes

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    Morgan Rhodes
    “Darkness will always try to extinguish the light. The light will always try to repress the darkness.”
    ― Morgan Rhodes, Rebel Spring
    tags: dark, darkness, extinguish, light
    96 likes

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  • #23
    Jeanette Winterson
    “The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
    tags: darkness, life
    135 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: beginnings, darkness, dreams, future, goals, journey, lessons, midnight, new-beginnings, new-day, new-journeys, red-path, rough-starts, starting-over, tough-times
    117 likes

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    Margaret Stohl
    “It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone.
    -Macon Ravenwood”
    ― Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Darkness
    tags: beautiful-darkness, darkness, light
    151 likes

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  • #26
    “Accept your dark side, understanding it will help you to move with the light. Knowing both sides of our souls, helps us all to move forward in life and to understand that, perfection doesn't exist.”
    ― Martin R. Lemieux
    tags: darkness, joy, light, spiritual-growth, yin-and-yang
    95 likes

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    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.”
    ― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
    tags: darkness, horror, house-of-leaves, insightful
    129 likes

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    Lurlene McDaniel
    “But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.”
    ― Lurlene McDaniel, Breathless
    tags: breathless, darkness, peace
    52 likes

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    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “Of course love is blind; it keeps me blind to myself.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: blind, blinded, love, loved, myself, self, selfless, selflessness
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: blind, gods, men
    4 likes



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