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“I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“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.”
― Rumi

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
― Robert Frost

“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“Felix, I brought you here to tell you that you are in every one of my dreams. I came here to ask whether I’m in any of yours, too.”
― Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

“Sometimes I worry that as I’ve got older, I’ve shrunk my world instead of making it grow,”
― Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

“Melancholy isn't always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face with the certainty that disappointment is written into the script from the start.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“One day, I watched forty-four sunsets!"

And a little later you added: "You know, when a person is very, very sad, they like sunsets."
"And were you very, very sad on the day you watched forty-four sunsets?"

But the little prince did not reply.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince