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#1

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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#2

“People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

tags: happiness, love, relationships, responsibility, unconditional-love

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#3

“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
― Tom Robbins

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#4

“But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: selfish

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#5

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel

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#6

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#7

“It scared me that the only thing between this moment of calm and the biggest tragedy of my life was me choosing not to do it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

tags: billy, daisy-jones

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#8

“I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

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#9

“Ryan and I are two people who used to be in love.
What a beautiful thing to have been.
What a sad thing to be.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

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#10

“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
― Sylvia Plath , The Collected Poems

tags: dark, sleep, soul, sylvia-plath

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#11

“How do you know when it's over?"
"Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.”
― Gunnar Ardelius, I Need You More Than I Love You and I Love You to Bits

tags: falling-out-of-love, i-love-you, i-need-you, love, maybe, memories, move-on, over, when, when-it-s-over

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#12

“Maybe I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine.”
― Shon Mehta, The Timingila

tags: hero, quotes, self, story, villain, villains

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#13

“I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I’ve been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

tags: afraid, afraid-to-die, alone, freedom, homeless, journey, learning, life, london, lonely, musician, scared, traveling

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#14

“I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

tags: arrive, arriving, born, home, leaving, love, touring, travel, traveller, travelling, vagabond, vagabonding, wander, wandering, wanderlust

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#15

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: divorce, leaving

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#16

“I was stressed and scared and I had to hurry to be someone, become something, do something. I was running and talking and cursed myself when I wasted my time on things that wouldn’t get me anywhere. It was work and it was money and I was never where I was, always somewhere else in my head far, far away.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

tags: be-someone, far-away, grow-up, growing-up, hurry, in-my-head, money, mood, poem, poems, poetry, prose, running, scared, stress, stressed, talking, time, tumblr-writer, work, worried, worry, youth

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#17

“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: loneliness

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#18

“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#19

“Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.”
― Sam Stevens

tags: change, self-destruction

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#20

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: love

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#21

“They say that when you remember something, you are really remembering the last time you remembered it. Each time you recollect a memory, you change it, ever so slightly, shading it with new information, new feelings.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

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#22

“When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: depression, life

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#23

“I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”
― D.D. Barant, Dying Bites

tags: depression, guilt, insomnia, regret, self-loathing

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#24

“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: identity

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#25

“Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt before; and now here it comes with conviction, almost panic. I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.”
― Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

tags: cheating, death, divorce, infidelity, marriage, seperation, suicide

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#26

“I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could ﬁnd no meaning.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski, charles-bukowski

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#27

“Am I still a hero if the only person I save is
myself?
Am I still a villain if the only person I hurt is
myself?”
― B. Damani

tags: fairytale, hero, poem, poetry, villain

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#28

“that is the thing about selfish people. they gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

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#29

“If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: attitude, bold, boldness, boldness-and-attitude, brave, bravery, commitment, consequences, courage, courageous, coward, face, guts, man-up, responsibility, running, running-away, stand-up, stand-up-for-yourself, standing, staying-strong, strength, strong

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#30

“I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: acceptance, antagonist, anti-hero, antihero, art, artist, bad, bad-guy, discernment, judgment, misunderstood, painting, perception, perspective, understanding, villain

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