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#1

“In the modern view, the pitched roof was itself a “dead concept,” but equally unhealthy
were all those other dead concepts that got stored underneath the gable, in the attic. For there is where the ghosts of our past reside: the bric-abrac
and mementos that a lifetime collects; the love letters, photographs, and memories that clutter an attic and threaten to bear us back in time.”
― Michael Pollan, A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

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#2

“People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost. We kill to eat, we cut down trees to build our homes, we exploit other people and the earth. Sacrifice - of nature, of the interests of others, even of our earlier selves - appears to be an inescapable part of our condition, the unavoidable price of all our achievements. A successful ritual is one that addresses both aspects of our predicament, recalling us to the shamefulness of our deeds at the same time it celebrates what the poet Frederick Turner calls "the beauty we have paid for with our shame." Without the double awareness pricked by such rituals, people are liable to find themselves either plundering the earth without restraint or descending into self-loathing and misanthropy. Perhaps it's not surprising that most of us today bring one of those attitudes or the other to our conduct in nature.”
― Michael Pollan, A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

tags: earth, humanity, nature, ritual, sacrifice

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#3

“Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.”
― Michael Pollan, A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

tags: daydreaming, dreaming

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#4

“Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance better than most, since a fair amount of what they call work consists of little more than daydreaming edited. Yet anyone who reads for pleasure should prize it too, for what is reading a good book but a daydream at second hand? Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.”
― Michael Pollan, A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

tags: daydreaming, reading

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#5

“Do you remember when I told you that I sometimes believe that you’re not real? That I imagined you just to hurt myself?” Reed says softly with a bitterly self-effacing laugh that has nothing to do with humor. “I know now that you have to be real. This kind of pain cannot exist if you were imaginary,” Reed’s sexy voice breathes. I feel like I could reach out and touch him, he feels that close to me. “I know you exist, but you’re like a sunset to me now—beautiful and so distant that no matter how fast I fly, I cannot reach you. You are always on the next horizon,” Reed says sadly, and my breath catches in my throat as an unbelievable ache throbs in my chest. “Tel me where you are. I wil meet you—
wherever you are in the world. I wil be there. Just you and me, I swear it. We don’t have to endanger anyone else—
we’l make sure Buns and Brownie and Zephyr are safe. Just you and me, I promise…I wil meet you anywhere at anytime…I wil …”
― Amy A. Bartal intuition

tags: hurting

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#6

“Let go of all your pain. May your heart be open to healing.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

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#7

“I do not hurt people, they just make me do it.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency

tags: hurting, people

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#8

“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”
― Rob Liano

tags: adversity, advice, be-positive, begging, betrayed, better-than-this, breakups, broken, change-your-life, chasing, compete, competition, competitive-women, confidence, crying, dates, dating, daydreaming, decieved, deja-vu, delusional, denial-big-time, depression, desperate, dignity, doormat, exboyfriend, false-hope, find-your-balance, fool, foolish, get-moving, get-over-it, get-up, giving-up, hanging-on, heartbreak, hurting, ignorant, in-love, inner-peace, insecurity, jealous-women, know-worth, lack-of-confidence, lack-of-respect, let-go, lies, love, low-self-esteem, marriage, married-women, men, mercy, moving-on, nostalgic, pathetic, pity, pride, relationships, reputation, see-your-value, seeing, self-abuse, self-degradation, self-denial, self-empowerment, self-loathing, self-love, self-respect, self-worth, settling, single-woman, single-women, sorrow, staying-positive, stayingpositveu-com, strength, support, trial, true-strength, undermining, value, warrior-woman, warrior-women, woman, women

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#9

“To consume the best for yourself and give the crumbs to God is blasphemy. A heart that truly worships is a heart that gives its best to God in time and substance. A heart that truly worships God gives generously to the causes of God---causes that God cares deeply about. I have to wonder whether someday we may wake up to discover that all our incestous spending on ourselves and our frantic construction of excessively luxurious places of worship---even as we ignore, for the most part, the hurting and the deprived of the world---filled God's heart with pain.”
― Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us through the Events in Our Lives

tags: church, deprived, giving, hurting, poor, social-justice, tithe

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#10

“Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.”
― Ryan Lilly, Write like no one is reading

tags: breathe, breathing, breathing-in-and-out, breathing-in-awareness, broken, broken-heart, broken-hearted, brokenness, charities, charity, collage, compassion, compassionate, empathetic, empathy, encouragement, glass, helping, human-condition, hurt, hurting, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, light, love, love-quote, loving, mosaic, motivation, motivational-quote, motivational-quotes, stained, stained-glass, take-my-breath-away, volunteer, volunteering

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#11

“People like to say that time heals all wounds, but I don't believe it. I remember once Grandpa took me firewood cutting, and as we looked at the rings of the tree together, he pointed out the years where there was drought and the years where there was fire. So while time allowed for new growth that hid the scars of the past, those scars were still there, inside the tree, and part of the tree. I think about how I am like that tree.”
― Kaya McLaren, Church of the Dog

tags: healing, hurting, life

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#12

“We have to expect disappointments, trouble, losses and hurts as an inevitable part of life. It is vital to repeat to ourselves the most important and comforting words of all time: THIS, TOO, SHALL PASS AWAY!”
― Donald Pillai

tags: comforting, hurting, inspirational, motivational, motivational-inspirational, motivational-quotes, pain

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#13

“Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen.”
― Shaun Hick

tags: abuse, child, cry, crying, eye, eyes, girl, heartache, hurt, hurting, pain, rain, sad, sad-childhood, sadness, scared, tear, tears, war, winter, winter-rain, young

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#14

“What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

I do, Augustus.
I do.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: choices, hurting, love

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#15

“A thin, polished woman walks in. She sticks out immediately in her expensive looking navy dress, shiny bag and shoes that probably cost more than I make in a month. My breath leaves me when I see that her arm is draped around a younger version of herself. That hair, it's pulled back way too tight now, but I'd run my hands through it a thousand times before. That face, now in layer of makeup that makes her look older than I remember, I'd held it in my calloused hands and kissed those lips goodbye over a year ago. She said she'd never see me again and I learned to accept that. She destroyed me, and I'd moved on.
No. Not her. She's not from here anymore. I don't know who that person is anymore.”
― Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours

tags: hurt, hurt-feelings, hurting, love-hurts

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#16

“You can’t hold it in forever,” Colton said, apropos of nothing. “Yes, I can.” I had to. “You’ll go crazy. It’ll come out, one way or another.” “Better crazy than broken.” I wasn't sure where that came from, hadn't thought it or meant to say it. “You’re not broken. You’re hurting.”
― Jasinda Wilder, Falling Into You

tags: broken, colton, crazy, falling-into-you, grief, hurt, hurting, jasinda-wilder, nell, supression

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#17

“Everyone gets so worried about the people who are still living when the people who are really hurting are the dead ones. People like Grandma and Graham.They don’t exist anymore.
There is nothing worse than that”
― Matthew Green, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

tags: exist, hurting, living

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#18

“If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less.”
― Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths

tags: crosses, happiness, hurting, inner-peace, inspirational-quotes, joy, knowledge, little, love, path, planet, truth, unconditional-love, wisdom

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#19

“You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

tags: coldness

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#20

“Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from—this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

tags: coldness, lost, meaningless, worthless

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#21

“I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You may think that you should listen, should strain to make out its whispers, should bend over backward, stoop down low to hear its voice breathed up from the ground, from the dead places. You may think there’s something in it for you, something to understand or make sense of.
But I know the truth: I know from the nights of Coldness. I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It’s hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do—the only thing— is run.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

tags: backward, broken, coldness, dead-places, good, inner-voice, intuition, listen, past, run, secret, stone, truth, voice, whispers

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#22

“If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them.
People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.”
― kanye west

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#23

“The sun rose in my life. At first, as dawn breaking on the horizon, almost as if to say, this is where you have to look. Then came the first rays of sunshine, everything became clearer, lighter, more alive, and I became happier and happier, and then it hung in the sky of my life and shone and shone and shone.”
― Knausgaard

tags: happiness

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#24

“I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, anger, battles, boyfriends, breakups, choices, confusion, crazy-love, crush, dating, disease, divorce, exboyfriends, exgirlfriends, exspouse, feelings, funny, hatred, humor, in-love, insane, insane-love, insanity, lack-of-communication, life, mad-love, marriage, mixed-signals, obsessive-love, partners, relationships, romance, spouse, struggles, stupid-men, stupid-women, unfinished-business, unrequited-love

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#25

“The Lord is my ‘Strong Fortress’.
The Lord is my ‘Solid Rock’.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

tags: adversity, challenges, christian-life, faith, hope, inner-strength, inspiring, life-lessons, positive-thinking, prayer, struggles, wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita

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#26

“Struggles put you in a position to make better decisions. You'll survive and should take the lessons learned especially in order to move forward in life. It may have been raining in your life for a moment, but the sun will shine again”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink

tags: inspiration, inspirational, lessons, life, live, love, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, struggles, thoughts, wisdom, words-of-wisdom

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#27

“Silence Never

Silence never healed the lonely.
Silence never comforted the broken hearted.
Silence never saved a life.
Silence never won an argument with kindness.
Silence never healed the poor.
Silence never learned compassion.
Silence never saw the pain in another.
Silence never asked for forgiveness.
Silence never felt remorse.
Silence never felt empathy.
Silence never grew up.
Silence never listened to promptings.
Silence never resolved a problem.
Silence never had closure.
Silence never had a conscience.
Silence never developed integrity.
Silence never knew manners.
Silence never learned respect.
Silence never matured.
Silence never understood that the bible and its stories was God’s way of saying, “Stop being silent and start healing one another.”
Silence never realized that Christ was an activist for communication.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: activist, christ, communication, compassion, compassionate, conflict, doer, empathy, healers, healing, integrity, jesus, light-givers, love-one-another, mercy, poems, poetry, silence, silent, spiritual-growth, struggles, talk

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#28

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues

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#29

“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

tags: abilities, equality, fear, gender, intelligence, men, misogyny, skills, strength, superiority, suppression, weakness, women

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#30

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

tags: women

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