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“(My parents) had always instilled in me that it was way cooler to be an individual and to be unique and that you don't want to blend in.”
― Winona Ryder

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”
― John Keats

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”
― Lord Byron

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
― Jane Austen

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
― Max Planck

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”
― John Keats

“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together...We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”
― Max Planck

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“You become what you think about all day long.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”
― Novalis

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”
― John Keats

“When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”
― Colette, Claudine and Annie

“I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.”
― Coco Chanel

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ”
― John Ruskin

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself am ... strange and unusual.”
― Lydia Deetez

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
― William Blake

“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”
― Friedrich von Schiller

“When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.”
― Lana Del Rey

“Into our inner being
The riches of the senses pour.
The Cosmic Spirit finds itself
Reflected in the human eye,
Which ever must renew its strength
From out that spirit source.”
― Rudolf Steiner, The Illustrated Calendar of the Soul: Meditations for the Yearly Cycle

“You are every beautiful thing that has ever happened to me wrapped in a person. You may think you are ordinary, but to me you are as magical as the ocean.”
― Nikita Gill