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""The most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous."
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— Carrie Bradshaw

11 people liked it

"There’s a kind of support you ask for and the kind you don’t ask for. And there’s the kind that just shows up. After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breathe and reboot. And when that fails, a little gizmo called zip drive can provide a surprising amount of comfort. So can a boyfriend, if you can learn to let him.(Sex and the City)"
— Carrie Bradshaw/Sarah Jessica Parker

12 people liked it

"Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back, maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be…."
— carrie bradshaw, sx n the city

tags: life
13 people liked it

""I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love""
— Carrie Bradshaw

13 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,410 people liked it

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: friendship, love
1,673 people liked it

"There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

tags: love
144 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,676 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,998 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,370 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,586 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,830 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,708 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
9,299 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,836 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Jim Henson

tags: humor
5,935 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,733 people liked it

"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual"
— Virginia Woolf

45 people liked it

"She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day."
— Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)

41 people liked it

"I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer? "
— Virginia Woolf

37 people liked it

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas)

tags: calming, reassuring, true
33 people liked it

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: books, library
16 people liked it

"Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be."
— Julie Powell (Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously)

3 people liked it

"Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. "
— Judy Garland

tags: be-yourself, greatness, individuality
99 people liked it

"There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined , though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so."
— Michael Cunningham (The Hours)

26 people liked it

"Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours."
— Michael Cunningham (The Hours)

18 people liked it

"What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life."
— Michael Cunningham (The Hours)

7 people liked it

"What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run."
— Michael Cunningham (The Hours)

2 people liked it

"8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her."
— Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4)

3 people liked it

"It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone."
— Ian McEwan (Atonement)

tags: alone, children
12 people liked it

"One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper."
— Michael Cunningham (The Hours)

tags: fiction, life, writing
238 people liked it

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
— Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts)

tags: books, soul
106 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,696 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,806 people liked it

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