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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Truman Capote
    “You know the days when you get the mean reds?
    Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues?
    Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?”
    Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

  • #3
    Virginia Woolf
    “What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
    Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

  • #4
    Virginia Woolf
    “The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “Our doubts are traitors,
    and make us lose the good we oft might win,
    by fearing to attempt.”
    William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

  • #6
    Derek Walcott
    “The time will come
    when, with elation,
    you will greet yourself arriving
    at your own door, in your own mirror,
    and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
    Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

  • #7
    Derek Walcott
    Love After Love

    The time will come
    when, with elation
    you will greet yourself arriving
    at your own door, in your own mirror
    and each will smile at the other's welcome,

    and say, sit here. Eat.
    You will love again the stranger who was your self.
    Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
    to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

    all your life, whom you ignored
    for another, who knows you by heart.
    Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

    the photographs, the desperate notes,
    peel your own image from the mirror.
    Sit. Feast on your life.”
    Derek Walcott, Collected Poems, 1948-1984

  • #8
    Milan Kundera
    “We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.”
    Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

  • #9
    Garth Stein
    “In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.”
    Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

  • #10
    “When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”
    Barbara Bloom

  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
    Rumi

  • #12
    “Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.”
    Lady Gaga

  • #13
    John Grisham
    “Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
    John Grisham, The Rainmaker

  • #14
    There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable
    “There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

  • #15
    Oliver  James
    “Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for”
    Oliver James

  • #16
    Cassandra Clare
    “The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

  • #17
    Toba Beta
    “Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.”
    Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

  • #18
    Irving Wallace
    “To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
    Irving Wallace

  • #19
    Virginia Satir
    “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”
    Virginia Satir

  • #20
    Nora Roberts
    “Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #21
    Max Ehrmann
    “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love – for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you from misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”
    Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

  • #22
    Aldous Huxley
    “That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.”
    Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception



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