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#31

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

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#32

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

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#33

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

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#34

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

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#35

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

tags: wisdom

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#36

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

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#37

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World

tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading

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#38

“Every good country home needs a place to sit and think and watch the clouds roll by”
― Ingrid Law, Savvy

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#39

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

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#40

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

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#41

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

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#42

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

tags: inspirational

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#43

“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
― Beryl Bainbridge

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#44

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

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#45

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

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#46

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

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#47

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

tags: memories, past

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#48

“As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

tags: inspirational, life

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#49

“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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#50

“Never let fear and stupid pride make you lose someone who's precious to you.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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#51

“The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

tags: easily, heart, stop

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#52

“It’s a waste of time to think about things you can’t know,”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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#53

“There are certain thoughts that, no matter what, you have to keep inside.”
― haruki murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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#54

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

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#55

“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

tags: humor

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#56

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#57

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
― W.H. Auden

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#58

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

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#59

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

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#60

“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

tags: fate

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