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“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.” -Lily Tomlin ¨The past is gone, I know that. The future isn’t here yet, whatever it’s going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That’s it.” -Don Johnston You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. ~ Jim Rohn Our life is the creation of our mind.— Buddha
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.— Jane AustenThrough others we become ourselves.— Lev S. Vygotsky It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them — and they simply don’t need you. That’s all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they’ll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on — this desperate need — and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.— Madeleine L’Engle“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”-Charles Dickens
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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.~ T.S. EliotI don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.~ Jonathan Safran Foer But you are my nomad and I love you sideways daily. Sideways because I have to beam my love in all directions, hoping it bounces off something and eventually finds you.~ “The Long and the Short of It” - Richard SikenI was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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“But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.”—Sylvia Plath People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.~ Charles BukowskiPeople disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great GatsbyI used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.~ Ransom Riggs 
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You are farther away when i am with you, than when we are apart.— Rachel Medrano, The Good LinkBeing listened to - really listened to - is the second-best thing in the world.— Gregory David Roberts, ShantaramNever wanted to be anyone but myself although figuring out who i was was sometimes a problem. but in the end i discovered that no one could offer me any more than i could offer myself.— Dark Raven For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.- Neil deGrasse Tyson At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. - Lao Tzu
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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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Maybe you have to know the darkness in before you can appreciate the light. Madeline L´Engle “If you’ve never been there then you have no idea what illusions do.”- Joe Budden “So it is with this unbroken and rapid journey of life that we make at the same pace, whether awake or asleep: those who are busy with other things do not notice it until the end comes.” “The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don’t know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.-Neil degrasse tyson There is a subtle truth: whatever you love you are. -Rumi The only things we ever keepAre the things we give away.-Patricia Jessup What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.-Eckhart Tolle “All things splendid have been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.”-Bruce Barton
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“People spend a lifetime looking for the answer to life. There is no answer. There never has been an answer, that’s the answer.”Gertrude SteinLove is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”Milan Kundera“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”Umberto Eco “This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you’re loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn’t any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure.”James Lense
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“It’s entirely conceivable that life’s splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible, far away. But there it lies, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If we call it by the right word, by the right name, then it comes. This is the essence of magic, which doesn’t create but calls.”Franz Kafka“To live a creative live, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” - Joseph Chilton Pearce “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”Arthur Rimbaud“If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.”William Blake“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”Miriam Beard
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“Every conceivable life path necessarily excludes something else that could have been awesome. The secret of contentment is to find the awesome in what you currently have, and value that over the potential of lost opportunities.”D. Swanson “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” - G.K. Chesterton“Some people follow their dreams… others hunt them down and mercilessly beat them into submission.”Tom Felton “The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.”Anne RiceEvery atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust.Lawrence Krauss
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