May 2012
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It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
– Kahlil Gibran
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We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live...
– Neil Gaiman
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Some places are like family. They annoy us to no end, especially during the...
– Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you’re young enough,...
– John Bingham
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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no...
– Louise Erdrich
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The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude...
– Meridjet
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear;...
– E.E. Cummings
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters...
– Kahlil Gibran
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To laugh is to live profoundly.
– Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray...
– Charles de Lint
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The truth is that there are a lot of people like you, us, with strange hobbies...
– Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
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So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally...
– Daniel Handler, Adverbs
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because...
– C.S. Lewis
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That’s what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the...
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
– Plato
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And now
I want to be left
without words. To know how to lose
what is being...
– Mirta Rosenberg, from “Portrait Ended” (translated by Julie Wark)
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So many things become beautiful when you really look.
– Lauren Oliver
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want...
– Bill Watterson
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity...
– Henry David Thoreau
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I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love and how you gave me...
– Charles Bukowski
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There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is...
– Shauna Niequist
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The inspiration you seek
is already within you.
Be silent and listen.
– Rumi
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Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us...
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you...
– Haruki Murakami
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I am rooted, but I flow.
– Virginia Woolf
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If the world were not moved by grief, there would be no poetry. For it is...
– Bell Hooks, Wounds of Passion
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… for though we wish to live
utterly alive, within our skins,
there lives in...
– Moya Cannon, from “Harmonic Vases”
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering,...
– Anais Nin
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Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before...
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone...
– Veronica A. Shoffstall, After A While
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I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for.
– James Stewart, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
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Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...
–
Alan Watts
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it...
– William Blake
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I...
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within...
– Khalil Gibran
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Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.
– Sam Sundquist
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You are an unfinished work in progress. One of the good things about life’s...
– Karen Salmansohn
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny,...
– Anais Nin
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Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause,...
– Rumi
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Someone you haven’t even met yet is wondering what it’d be like to know someone...
– Iain Thomas
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring...
– Sri Satya Sai Baba
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As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
– Sir Thomas Brown
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You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.
– E.E. Cummings
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Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you...
– Og Mandino
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Be kind to your sleeping heart.
Take it out in the vast field of light
And let...
– Hafiz
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I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there...
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 27 February 1926
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It takes courage… to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose...
– Marianne Williamson, Return to Love
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There’s a morning when presence comes
over your soul. You sing like a...
– Rumi
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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow...
– W.B. Yeats