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  • #362
    Jim Morrison
    “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”
    Jim Morrison

  • #363
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #364
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    Abigail Van Buren

  • #365
    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    Haruki Marukami

  • #366
    Lorrie Moore
    “You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.”
    Lorrie Moore, Like Life

  • #367
    C. JoyBell C.
    “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #368
    Pablo Neruda
    “Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #369
    Sarah Dessen
    “It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”
    Sarah Dessen, Dreamland

  • #370
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

  • #371
    Emily Dickinson
    “A great hope fell
    You heard no noise
    The ruin was within.”
    Emily Dickinson
    tags: hope

  • #372
    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

  • #373
    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

  • #374
    Haruki Murakami
    “I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.”
    Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

  • #375
    Deborah Reber
    “Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
    Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning

  • #376
    Pablo Neruda
    “Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #377
    Washington Irving
    “There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
    Washington Irving

  • #378
    Washington Irving
    “Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. ”
    Washington Irving

  • #379
    E.Y. Harburg
    “Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
    E.Y. Harburg

  • #380
    P.L. Travers
    “Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”
    P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

  • #381
    John Muir
    “The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
    John Muir

  • #382
    Eoin Colfer
    “It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
    Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

  • #383
    Mark Haddon
    “I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”
    Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  • #384
    Ian Fleming
    “Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
    Ian Fleming

  • #385
    Jonathan Franzen
    “How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
    Jonathan Franzen

  • #386
    Patti Smith
    “I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.”
    Patti Smith, Just Kids

  • #387
    Pablo Neruda
    “Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
    Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.”
    Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

  • #388
    Haruki Murakami
    “The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.”
    Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

  • #389
    Emily Brontë
    “In secret pleasure — secret tears
    This changeful life has slipped away”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #390
    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my lids and all is born again.
    (I think I made you up inside my head.)”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #391
    Johnny Cash
    “I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.”
    Johnny Cash



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