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"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

tags: love, poetry
2,422 people liked it

"It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: death
479 people liked it

"I know many lives worth living."
— Mary Oliver

tags: oliver, poetry
6 people liked it

"Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be..."
— Wordsworth William

tags: glory, hope, poetry, strength
10 people liked it

"We the mortals touch the metals,
the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,
knowing they will go on, inert or burning,
and I was discovering, naming all the these things:
it was my destiny to love and say goodbye."
— Pablo Neruda (Still Another Day)

tags: neruda, pablo, poetry
27 people liked it

"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
— William Faulkner

tags: faulkner, poetry, william
26 people liked it

" If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
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— Lenny Bruce

tags: anti-catholic, anti-christian, catholicism, chairs, christ, christianity, crucifixion, death, electric, execution, jesus, penalty, rosaries
22 people liked it

"I am living. I remember you."
— Marie Howe

6 people liked it

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

4,726 people liked it

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
2,979 people liked it

"I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities."
— Lauren Slater

3 people liked it

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: inspirational, life
591 people liked it

"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now
mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

tags: hope, inspirational, love
384 people liked it

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: beauty, charity, inspirational, kindness
1,000 people liked it

"In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: eastern, inspirational, philosophy
250 people liked it

"Don't wake up one day wishing you'd tried."
— Edwin McCain

tags: inspirational
85 people liked it

"Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again."
— Hermann Hesse

tags: inspirational
44 people liked it

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: accountability, peace, self, spiritual
51 people liked it

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
244 people liked it

"Our own life has to be our message."
— Thich Nhat Hanh

15 people liked it

"We are unusual and tragic and alive."
— Dave Eggers

52 people liked it

"...And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people."
— Dave Eggers (You Shall Know Our Velocity!)

24 people liked it

"But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them."
— Dave Eggers (What Is the What)

39 people liked it

"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

--from WHEN DEATH COMES"
— Mary Oliver (New and Selected Poems: Volume One)

26 people liked it

"So every day
So every day
I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God,
one of which was you."
— Mary Oliver

5 people liked it

"When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world."
— Mary Oliver

tags: life
11 people liked it

"As it has been said
Love and a cough cannot be concealed
Even a small cough
Even a small love"
— Anne Sexton

tags: poetry
47 people liked it

"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."
— Anne Sexton

26 people liked it

"As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off."
— Anne Sexton

34 people liked it

""Love? Be it man. Be it woman.
It must be a wave you want to glide in on,
give your body to it, give your laugh to it,
give, when the gravelly sand takes you,
your tears to the land. To love another is something
like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.""
— Anne Sexton (The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton)

10 people liked it

"And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
— Walt Whitman

47 people liked it

"I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jests
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest.

(The Boxer)
"
— Paul Simon

tags: lies, listening, promises
1 person liked it

"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
— Margaret Atwood

80 people liked it

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
— Margaret Atwood

tags: adult, age
83 people liked it

"Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth."
— Margaret Atwood (Der blinde Mörder / The Blind Assassin)

tags: language, senses
42 people liked it

"You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter. "
— Joyce Carol Oates (I Am No One You Know: Stories)

5 people liked it

"Be calm. God awaits you at the door. "
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

12 people liked it

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
— Gabriel García Márquez

tags: life, memories
134 people liked it

"We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm."
— Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides)

tags: blood, cutting, eugenides, jeffrey, suicides, virgin
24 people liked it

"Like vanishing dew,
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning -- already gone --
thus should one regard one's self."
— Ikkyu

tags: old-songs, ozymandias, self, transience, wind, zen
7 people liked it

"In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it. "
— Randy K. Milholland,

tags: good, humor, improvement, inspirational, motivational, self
3 people liked it

"We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come."
— Milan Kundera

80 people liked it

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."
— Viktor E. Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning)

22 people liked it

"All good poems are victories over something."
— Stephen Dunn

tags: poetics, poets
2 people liked it

"Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out."
— Wally Lamb (She's Come Undone)

tags: love
97 people liked it

""Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time.
Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness.
Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again.
The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens.
Every love is carved from loss.
Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be.
But we learn to live in that love.""
— Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: -everything, illuminated-, is
4 people liked it

"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

tags: life
405 people liked it

"The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most wind up in parentheses."
— John Irving

tags: cider, house, irving, living, rules, sad, wtf
70 people liked it

"When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time -- the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes -- when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever -- there comes another day, and another specifically missing part."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

55 people liked it

"In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss."
— John Irving (Until I Find You)

29 people liked it

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