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  • #1
    Walt Whitman
    “I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
    I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #2
    John Steinbeck
    “I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.”
    John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

  • #3
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY - MAN

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #5
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

  • #6
    John Green
    “You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #7
    John Green
    “Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #8
    Tupac Shakur
    “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
    Tupac Shakur

  • #9
    Diane Ackerman
    “We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?”
    Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Love

  • #10
    “But, of course, putting yourself out there takes vulnerability. Vulnerability is hard, and we, as a rule, tend to go for what’s easy; by that logic, closing ourselves off is the easiest thing in the world. We quote the words of others to do our talking for us, send each other links to articles and stories in lieu of actual conversation, post pretty pictures to adequately convey our current state of mind, all to avoid having to proffer a single identifiable human emotion. We keep in touch with relatives by emailing them mawkishly inspirational chain letters once in a while. We regurgitate memes to approximate the feeling of being in the loop.”
    Phil Roland

  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    Rumi

  • #12
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

  • #13
    John Steinbeck
    “I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
    John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

  • #14
    William Least Heat-Moon
    “What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”
    William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways

  • #15
    Veronica Roth
    “I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now.

    I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”
    Veronica Roth, Allegiant

  • #16
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #17
    Elizabeth Bishop
    “The art of losing isn't hard to master;
    so many things seem filled with the intent
    to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

    Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
    of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
    The art of losing isn't hard to master.

    Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
    places, and names, and where it was you meant
    to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

    I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
    next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
    The art of losing isn't hard to master.

    I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
    some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
    I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

    ---Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
    I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
    the art of losing's not too hard to master
    though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.”
    Elizabeth Bishop, One Art

  • #18
    Sarah Waters
    “And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.”
    Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger

  • #19
    Augusten Burroughs
    “I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?”
    Augusten Burroughs

  • #20
    Charles Dickens
    “And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
    Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

  • #22
    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    Amy Bloom

  • #23
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #24
    Lemony Snicket
    “If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

  • #25
    Chang-rae Lee
    “For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.”
    Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #27
    Leonard Cohen
    “Ring the bells that still can ring
    Forget your perfect offering
    There is a crack in everything
    That's how the light gets in.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #28
    Leonard Cohen
    “In My Secret Life"

    "I saw you this morning,
    you were moving so fast.
    Can't seem to loosen my grip
    On the past.
    And I miss you so much,
    there's no one in sight.
    And we're still making love
    In my secret life.
    I smile when I am angry,
    I cheat and I lie,
    I do what I have to do
    to get by,
    In my secret life.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #29
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #30
    William Saroyan
    “When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
    William Saroyan

  • #31
    Jim Morrison
    “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”
    Jim Morrison



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