“Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.”
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“Give people time. Give people space. Don’t beg anyone to stay. Let them roam. What’s meant for you will always be yours.”
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“Has social media made us socially obese—gorged on constant connection but never properly nourished?”
― Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
― Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
“The snail was on the wing and the lark on the thorn - or, rather, the other way around - and God was in His heaven and all right with the world.
And presently the eyes closed, the muscles relaxed, the breathing became soft and regular, and sleep, which does something which has slipped my mind to the something sleeve of care, poured over me in a healing wave.”
― The Code of the Woosters
And presently the eyes closed, the muscles relaxed, the breathing became soft and regular, and sleep, which does something which has slipped my mind to the something sleeve of care, poured over me in a healing wave.”
― The Code of the Woosters
“But then I wondered if sometimes our friendships are a bit like clothes and when they start feeling uncomfortable it's not because we've done anything wrong. It just means that we've outgrown them.”
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