“If I knew where poems came from, I would go there.”
—Michael Longley
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“Her beauty, lithe, unholy, pure,”
—Yvor Winters Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight
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“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald
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“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.”
—David Lynch
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“There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.”
—Edward Abbey
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“Some people, as far as your senses are concerned, just feel like home.”
—Nick Hornby
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“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
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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it?
It makes you so vulnerable…It means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
—Neil Gaiman
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“My heart dresses in black and dances.”
—Mary Oliver
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“That’s the whole secret: To do things that excite you.”
—Ray Bradbury
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“Your life is a puzzle, dont waste your time trying to place people where they don’t fit.”
—Wiz Khalifa
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“Love.
Fall in love and stay in love.
Write only what you love, and love what you write.
The word is love.
You have to get up in the morning and write something you love,
something to live for.”
—Ray Bradbury
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“Why is it,’ he said, one time, at the subway entrance,
‘I feel I’ve known you so many years?’
‘Because I like you,’ she said, ‘and I don’t want anything from you.”
—Ray Bradbury
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“You’re not like the others.
I’ve seen a few; I know.
When I talk, you look at me.
When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.”
—Ray Bradbury
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“Wherever you are, be all there.”
—Jim Elliot
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“Some people just like to take without giving anything in return.
Be aware of who you let into your life and why they’re there.”
“You’re the only one I trust enough to see inside my soul.”
—William Chapman
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“I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there.
And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith,
and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”
—Sarah Dessen
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“Loved! loved! loved! loved! loved!”
—Walt Whitman
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“Love is really the only thing we can possess,
keep with us,
and take with us.”
—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy.
If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.
Apologize for mistakes.
Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone — profusely.
But don’t apologize for being who you are.”
—Danielle Laporte
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“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead.
Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it.
Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either.
White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”
—Roald Dahl
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“The more familiar two people become,
the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary,
dictionary-defined discourse.
Familiarity creates a new language,
an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story
the two lovers are weaving together
and that cannot be readily understood by others.”
—Alain de Botton
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“For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought,
each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.”
—Anaïs Nin Diary entry
Nov. 1933
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“But never have I been a blue calm sea.
I have always been a storm.”
—Stevie Nicks
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“If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars?”
—Tunisian Proverb
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“A good life is a collection of happy moments.”
—Denis Waitley
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“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”