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"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
— Woodrow Wilson

tags: animals, dogs
52 people liked it

"Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative."
— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

tags: animals, dogs
17 people liked it

"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: dogs
5 people liked it

"Don't make light of any man's pain."
— Patricia Briggs (When Demons Walk)

tags: pain
5 people liked it

"Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much."
— P.D. James (Innocent Blood)

tags: healing, pain
7 people liked it

"“I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.”"
— Elizabeth Wurtzel

tags: depression
48 people liked it

"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: depression, silence
106 people liked it

"At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I'd be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by."
— Elizabeth Wurtzel

tags: depression
30 people liked it

"Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me."
— Banana Yoshimoto

tags: apathy, depression, kitchen
16 people liked it

"...And sometime when I wasn't looking, I got a new life"
— Linda Della Donna

tags: funeral, grief, humor, inspirational, sadness, sorrow
35 people liked it

"It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one."
— Karl A. Menninger

tags: religion, understanding
4 people liked it

"Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws."
— Charles Simmons

tags: illness, laws-of-nature
3 people liked it

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god."
— Aristotle

tags: solitude
39 people liked it

"A weed is but an unloved flower."
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

tags: acceptance, flowers, gardening, love, weeds
10 people liked it

"You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company."
— Diane Von Furstenberg

tags: acceptance, esteem, life, self
16 people liked it

"The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied"
— Eddie Vedder

tags: sorrow
10 people liked it

"In the next world I could not be worse than I am in this."
— Patrick Branwell Brontë

tags: despair
2 people liked it

""One can only tolerate the absolute idiocy of Man for so long before bringing out the bat.""
— Dean Hale

tags: humor, pessimism
23 people liked it

"When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse."
— Robert Lynn Asprin

tags: humor, pessimism
23 people liked it

"Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. "
— Robert Orben

tags: pessimism
12 people liked it

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
— Beverly Sills

tags: dedication, determination, hard, work
14 people liked it

"When some is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: comfort, crying, tears
161 people liked it

"We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them."
— David Zindell (Neverness)

tags: life, real
4 people liked it

"Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind."
— David Zindell (The Broken God)

tags: life, real, reminding
2 people liked it

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: better, empathy, life
360 people liked it

"It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain."
— Pat Barker

tags: empathy, pain
6 people liked it

"Snow is falling once again
My soul is weary of this world
My body fails me, weakening
How long can I endure this cold?

I hear the Raven calling me
Onyx brother takes me home
Once more to spirit I return
Upon raven wings I am borne

"
— - Unknown

tags: death, raven, wolves
5 people liked it

""I'm a witch, not a Ouija board."
--Rowan Gant (Perfect Trust: A Rowan Gant Investigation)"
— M. R. Sellars

tags: gant, ouija, rowan, sellars, witch
5 people liked it

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."
— David Searls

tags: afterlife, journey, near-death
4 people liked it

"This accidental
meeting of possibilities
calls itself I.

I ask: what am I doing here?
And, at once, this I
becomes unreal."
— Dag Hammarskjöld (Markings)

tags: emptiness, self, zen
3 people liked it

"Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.
I self-center you more than ever."
— Saša Stanišić

tags: fun-with-language, love, missing
14 people liked it

"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time."
— Leonard Bernstein

tags: humor, stress
16 people liked it

"We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie."
— David Mamet (Boston Marriage)

tags: dessert, eating, food, humor, pie, stress
106 people liked it

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight
5,726 people liked it

"Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful."
— Milan Kundera

tags: love
698 people liked it

"We loved with a love that was more than love."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: logic, love
434 people liked it

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