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#1

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

6007 likes

#2

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: reading, words, writing

5415 likes

#3

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

4618 likes

#4

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry

11862 likes

#5

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

tags: death, life, poetry

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#6

“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: inspirational, poetry

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#7

“Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long.”
― Mia Castile

tags: poetry-quotes

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#8

“If

"If freckles were lovely, and day was night,
And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie,
Life would be delight,--
But things couldn't go right
For in such a sad plight
I wouldn't be I.

If earth was heaven and now was hence,
And past was present, and false was true,
There might be some sense
But I'd be in suspense
For on such a pretense
You wouldn't be you.

If fear was plucky, and globes were square,
And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee
Things would seem fair,--
Yet they'd all despair,
For if here was there
We wouldn't be we.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: acceptance, contradictions, identity, if, opposites, poetry-quotes, reality

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#9

“I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.”
― Jason Mraz

tags: confidence, inspirational, life, music, power, spiritual, truth, work

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#10

“Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.”
― Jason Mraz

tags: anger, frustration, healing, life, love, truth, wisdom

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#11

“I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to ﬁght for them.
That isn’t my story.”
― Gillian Marchenko, Sun Shine Down: A Memoir

tags: down-syndrome, gillian-marchenko, memoir, special-needs

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#12

“Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.”
― Margaret Mead

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#13

“If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.”
― David Ellsworth from The Serenity of Selfism

tags: lost-love-poems

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#14

“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
― Tim Fargo

tags: adversity, adversity-inspirational, adversity-quotes, aptitude, attain, attainable, attainment, capacity, competency, difficulty, enemies, enemy, friend, friendship, friendship-true-and-loyal, hard-times, hard-work, hardship, loyal, loyalty, perseverance, perseverance-quotes, persevere, potential, potential-for-greatness, pressure, strength, strength-and-courage, strength-of-character, talent, talented

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#15

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dumbledore, magic, music, power-of-music

3093 likes

#16

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

tags: fear, heart, love, regret

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#17

“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”
― Jodi Picoult

tags: death, heart, love, mourning, suicide

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#18

“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
― Raymond Carver

tags: heart, human-passion

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#19

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

tags: experience

1896 likes

#20

“You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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#21

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

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#22

“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: belief, bravery, courage, depression, eating, exercise, food, future, life, living, love, loved-ones, medication, memories, reason, strength

2050 likes

#23

“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

tags: humans, philosophy, society

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#24

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion

1819 likes

#25

“Love is Not All

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

tags: love, poetry, sonnet-xxx

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#26

“If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.”
― Rumi

tags: denial, depression, healing, pain, recovery, sadness, suffering

774 likes

#27

“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”
― Mark Twain, What is Man?

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#28

“when you meet that person. a person. one of your soulmates. let the connection. relationship. be what it is. it may be five mins. five hours. five days. five months. five years. a lifetime. five lifetimes. let it manifest itself the way it is meant to. it has an organic destiny. this way if it stays or if it leaves, you will be softer. from having been loved this authentically. souls come into. return. open. and sweep through your life for a myriad of reasons. let them be who. and what they are meant.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

tags: love, nayyirah-waheed, soulmates

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#29

“Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

tags: desire, love, lust, starvation

373 likes

#30

“there have been so many times
i have seen a man wanting to weep
but
instead
beat his heart until it was unconscious.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

tags: patriarchy, poetry

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