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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.— Jean-Paul Sartre “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.”— Eckhart von Hochheim I run because it’s so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can’t. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you’re capable of so much more than you thought.-Arthur BlankYou are an unfinished work in progress. One of the good things about life’s challenges: You get to find out that you’re capable of being far more than you ever thought possible.-Karen Salmansohn
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one day, you realize that there are some people you’ll never see again. at least, not in the same way.— I Wrote This For You my atoms and chemicals could havebeen made anywhere in theuniverse but they were made herenear you, near yours.— I Wrote This For You time to recharge in the elements, to be aware of the dust from which i came and to which i will return, the history of a thousand supernovas in my veins, and starlight and wanderlust in my brain.— Dark Raven somewhere, i know the feeling ofnever.— Dana Silvercrest
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When we are young, we are a jungle of complications. We simplify as we get older. —Graham GreeneHeaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears; for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.-Charles Dickens “One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”—Lewis Carroll I’ve often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake.— Federico García Lorca
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You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.”— Henri J.M. Nouwen“Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.”— E.M. Forster“Maybe that’s what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.” ― Emily Giffin “I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee, our noons, our nights, our bodies spilled together, sleeping, the tiny flowing currents, immediate and forever. Your leg, my leg, your arm, my arm, your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.”— Charles Bukowski
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. — Thomas MertonThe trouble is, you think you have time. — BuddhaFrom my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. — Edvard MunchThe mind is everything. What you think you become. — BuddhaThe moon lives in the lining of your skin. — Pablo NerudaIf it doesn’t matter in 5 years, it doesn’t matter. — M. C. Escher
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“If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say“But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today.”— Iain Thomas“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running; that’s the way to live.”— Jack Kerouac, “How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface… To make a map of my movement… No matter how temporary.”— Craig Thompson
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“I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.”— Richard Bach “I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can’t protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.”— Susan Elizabeth Phillips The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No matter what happens, continue to push back the boundaries of your inner life. The confidence to prevail over any problem, the strength to overcome adversity and unbounded hope — all reside within you.”— Daisaku Ikeda 
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“There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn’t one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”— Marya Hornbacher “In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.”— Diego Marchi “Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”— David Levithan“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”— David Levithan
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“The four hardest tasks on earth are neither physical nor intellectual feats, but spiritual ones: To return love for hate; to include the excluded; to forgive without apology, and to be able to say ‘I was wrong.’”— Anon “We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.”— Laurence Binyon“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”— Victor Hugo“Evolve. It’s one of my favorite words. It comes from the Latin evolvere, which means to unroll. … Of all the obligations we have to ourselves, I believe that evolving is the most vital. Unrolling is at the very heart of the most important work we have to do. And though that unrolling means something different for each one of us, it essentially means releasing whatever it is we’ve kept bundled into the cocoon.”— Dear Sugar
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“We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.”— St. Francis of Assisi“To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task…tremendous and foolish and human.”— Louise Erdrich“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.”— James Matthew Barrie“You cannot save people. You can only love them.”— Anaïs Nin
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“May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.”— Kate Forsyth“Anyone can slay a dragon …but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That’s what takes a real hero.”— Brian Andreas “Love lives not in places nor even bodies but in the spaces between them, the long and lovely sweep of air and sky, and in the living heart and memory until that is gone, too, and we are all of us wanderers, as we have always been upon the earth.”— Lee Smith“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.”— Mother Teresa
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“As we give, we find that ‘sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven,’ and in the end we learn it was no sacrifice at all.”— Spencer W. Kimball“I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am tonight.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald “The greatest battle is not physical but psychological. The demons telling us to give up when we push ourselves to the limit can never be silenced for good. They must always be answered by the quiet, the steady dignity that simply refuses to give in. Courage. We all suffer. Keep going.”— Graeme Fife“I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.”— William P. Young
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“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.”— Moliere“But we can’t live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.”— Libba Bray“Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think that you’ve lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.”— Asha Tyson“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.”— Mother Teresa“We need much less than we think we need.”— Maya Angelou“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”— David Foster Wallace“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”— Adrienne Rich
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All these thousands of miles later, all these different people I’ve been, and it’s still the same story.-Chuck PalahniukWhat could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find. -Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”- Virginia Woolf “Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.”— Henri Frederic Amiel
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