Melissa Tan

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Melissa’s Quotes

“My heart wants roots
My mind wants wings.
I cannot bear
Their bickerings.”
― E. Y. Harburg

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“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
― Seneca

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“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: love, roots

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“There is a relationship between the eye contacts we make and the perceptions that we create in our heads, a relationship between the sound of another's voice and the emotions that we feel in our hearts, a relationship between our movements in space all around us and the magnetic pulls we can create between others and ourselves. All of these things (and more) make up the magic of every ordinary day and if we are able to live in this magic, to feel and to dwell in it, we will find ourselves living with magic every day. These are the white spaces in life, the spaces in between the written lines, the cracks in which the sunlight filters into. Some of us swim in the overflowing of the wine glass of life, we stand and blink our eyes in the sunlight reaching unseen places, we know where to find the white spaces, we live in magic.”
― C. JoyBell C.