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    Thomas Moore
    “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed”
    ― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
    tags: madness, mystery, philosphy, soul
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    “You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World.”
    ― Emery Allen
    tags: beauty-and-sadness, disaster, healing, love, soul, wounds
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.

    “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says.

    “You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.

    “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
    tags: catching-fire, katniss-and-peeta, katniss-everdeen, love, peeta-mellark, romance, the-hunger-games
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
    tags: bestseller, love, nicholas-sparks, north-carolina, novel
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  • #5
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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    Jane Goodall
    “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
    ― Jane Goodall
    tags: inspiration
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    Sarah Dessen
    “You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
    tags: love
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    Elinor Glyn
    “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
    ― Elinor Glyn
    tags: inspiration, love, romance
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: feelings, inspiration, inspirational-quotes
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    Jordan Belfort
    “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”
    ― Jordan Belfort
    tags: excuses, goal, inspiration, motivation, self-defeat
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: creation, creative, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, worry
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, The Host
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Greta Garbo
    “There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.”
    ― Greta Garbo, Greta & Cecil
    tags: bachelorhood, empowerment, equality, freedom, independence, marriage, matrimony, preference, self-determination, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, singles, submission, women
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    Cassandra Clare
    “And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: cassandra-clare, city-of-glass, clary, jace, love, mortal-instruments
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    Tom Robbins
    “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
    ― Tom Robbins
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: self-esteem, self-image
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    Jamie McGuire
    “To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.”
    ― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
    tags: best-friends, heartbreak, love
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    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
    tags: love
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: ghosts, haunt
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    Milan Kundera
    “You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
    ― Milan Kundera
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  • #43
    Bertrand Russell
    “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
    tags: happiness, love
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    David Byrne
    “Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”
    ― David Byrne
    tags: love
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  • #46
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Every great love starts with a great story...”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: romance, storytelling
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: anorexia, self-esteem
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  • #48
    Cassandra Clare
    “There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: mortal-instruments, romance, teen-fantasy
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  • #49
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
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  • #50
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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  • #51
    Cassandra Clare
    “And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: mortal-instruments, romance, teen-fantasy
    8747 likes



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