“Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.”
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“Just because someone hurts you doesn't mean you can simply stop loving them. It's not a person's actions that hurt the most. It's the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
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“Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.”
― The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World
― The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World
“Why do you allow yourselves to be shut up?'
'Because it cannot be helped as they are stronger than women.'
'A lion is stronger than a man, but it does not enable him to dominate the human race. You have neglected the duty you owe to yourselves and you have lost your natural rights by shutting your eyes to your own interests.”
― Sultana's Dream
'Because it cannot be helped as they are stronger than women.'
'A lion is stronger than a man, but it does not enable him to dominate the human race. You have neglected the duty you owe to yourselves and you have lost your natural rights by shutting your eyes to your own interests.”
― Sultana's Dream
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