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#1

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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#2

“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

tags: disappointment, disillusionment, emotional

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#3

“It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.”
― Deb Caletti, The Nature of Jade

tags: disappointment, loss

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#4

“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”
― Eric Hoffer

tags: disappointment

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#5

“I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice. truth advances, & error recedes step by step only; and to do to our fellow-men the most good in our power, we must lead where we can, follow where we cannot, and still go with them, watching always the favorable moment for helping them to another step.

[Comment on establishing Jefferson's University of Virginia, a secular college, in a letter to Thomas Cooper 7 October 1814]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: best, inspirational, opinion, theology, university-of-virginia

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#6

“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ”
― George Bernard Shaw, Overruled

tags: living, satisfaction

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#7

“Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.”
― Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

tags: bread, companionship, life, love, paradise, poetry, satisfaction, sufficiency, wine

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#8

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”
― Katherine Mansfield

tags: moving-on, regret

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#9

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

tags: longing, love, sadness

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#10

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
― Homer, The Iliad

tags: classics, greece, longing, love, lovers

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#11

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
― George Eliot

tags: hunger, living, longing, wish, wishing

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#12

“There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.”
― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

tags: longing

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#13

“Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: art, battle, belief, conversation, creativity, expression, opinions, self-expression, speech, speechless

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#14

“For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

tags: aspirations, contentment, desires, dreams, longing

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#15

“Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives.”
― Julianne Davidow

tags: erotic, individual, lives, longing, love, merge

75 likes

#16

“Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."

- from "Dimpellumpzki”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

tags: content, contentment, gratefulness, longing, pine, pining, regret, richelle, richelle-goodrich, thankfulness, thanks, want, wanting, wish, wishing, yearn, yearning

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#17

“There is some kiss we want with
our whole lives, the touch of
spirit on the body. Seawater
begs the pearl to break its shell.
and the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild darling! At
night, I open the window and ask
the moon to come and press its
face against mine. Breathe into
me. Close the language door and
open the lovers window. The moon
won’t use the door, only the window.”
― Rumi

tags: longing, love, lovers, poetry

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#18

“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”
― Vernon Howard

tags: approval, strength

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#19

“The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: adrenaline, danger, death, fear, strength

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#20

“Let your strength from the past
provide proof of your abilities to . . .
conquer the difficulties of the present.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, For the (soon) unemployed: You Against Them

tags: advice, empowerment, ordeals, past, strength, unemployment

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#21

“You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: comfort, happiness, illness, love, marriage, safety, sickness, strength

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#22

“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia”
― Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Almagest

tags: eternity, mortality, night-sky, sky, stars

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#24

“A life is not a waste of time”
― Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood

tags: death, gratefulness, life, mortality, patience, time, waste

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#25

“I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: dislike, ego, insulting, old-man, punch

105 likes

#26

“You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.”
― Brené Brown

tags: belittle, shame

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#27

“People in love overvalue their heart and undervalue their mind.”
― Amit Kalantri

tags: amit, amit-kalantri-quotes, belittle, cleverness, don-t, don-t-quotes, emotion, emotional, emotions, feel, feelings, heart, human, humans, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, intelligence, intelligent, mind, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, overestimate, overestimating, overestimation, overvalue, people, philosophy, strengthen, underestimate, underestimating, underestimation, undermine, undervalue, wisdom, wisdom-quotes

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#28

“Well. He's a very sensitive boy. He's really never been a terribly good mixer with other boys...'

Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a goddamn toilet seat.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: sensitivity

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#29

“The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice.”
― Paul Robeson

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#30

“If I'm working this hard in the morning, I'd prefer it be because my man has woken me up with an eight-inch nudge.”
― Erin McCarthy, Hard and Fast

tags: erection, morning, work

56 likes

#31

“New days should be greeted like new lovers and babies toddling along a table looking back to make sure we’re watching.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

tags: babies, days, morning, new-days

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