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  • #1
    “Promise Yourself

    To be so strong that nothing
    can disturb your peace of mind.
    To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
    to every person you meet.

    To make all your friends feel
    that there is something in them
    To look at the sunny side of everything
    and make your optimism come true.

    To think only the best, to work only for the best,
    and to expect only the best.
    To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
    as you are about your own.

    To forget the mistakes of the past
    and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
    To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
    and give every living creature you meet a smile.

    To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
    that you have no time to criticize others.
    To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
    and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

    To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
    not in loud words but great deeds.
    To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
    so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
    Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

  • #2
    Haruki Murakami
    “It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #3
    Paulo Coelho
    “Ester asked why people are sad.
    "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

  • #4
    William Shakespeare
    “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
    William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

  • #5
    J.D. Salinger
    “If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #7
    Haruki Murakami
    “I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.'

    Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. [...] We needed that much time.... to understand how lonely we really were.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #8
    Pablo Neruda
    “Well, now
    If little by little you stop loving me
    I shall stop loving you
    Little by little
    If suddenly you forget me
    Do not look for me
    For I shall already have forgotten you

    If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
    And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
    Remember
    That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
    And my roots will set off to seek another land”
    Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems

  • #9
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #10
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #11
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #12
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Man's memory shapes
    Its own Eden within”
    Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers

  • #13
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #14
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.”
    Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse

  • #15
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #16
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #17
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #18
    Haruki Murakami
    “An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.”
    Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

  • #19
    Joan Didion
    “I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.”
    Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

  • #20
    Criss Jami
    “There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #21
    Sarah Ruhl
    “A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.”
    sarah ruhl, Eurydice

  • #22
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    Mary Oliver

  • #23
    Mary Oliver
    “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
    Mary Oliver

  • #24
    Mary Oliver
    “Instructions for living a life.
    Pay attention.
    Be astonished.
    Tell about it.”
    Mary Oliver

  • #25
    Mary Oliver
    “Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
    Mary Oliver

  • #26
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #27
    Mary Oliver
    “The Uses Of Sorrow

    (In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

    Someone I loved once gave me
    a box full of darkness.

    It took me years to understand
    that this, too, was a gift.”
    Mary Oliver, Thirst

  • #28
    John Green
    “So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.”
    John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

  • #29
    Omar Khayyám
    “Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
    Omar Khayyam, رباعيات خيام

  • #30
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Learning

    After some time, you learn the subtle difference between
    holding a hand
    and imprisoning a soul;
    You learn that love does not equal sex,
    and that company does not equal security,
    and you start to learn….
    That kisses are not contracts and gifts are not promises,
    and you start to accept defeat with the head up high
    and open eyes,
    and you learn to build all roads on today,
    because the terrain of tomorrow is too insecure for plans…
    and the future has its own way of falling apart in half.

    And you learn that if it’s too much
    even the warmth of the sun can burn.

    So you plant your own garden and embellish your own soul,
    instead of waiting for someone to bring flowers to you.

    And you learn that you can actually bear hardship,
    that you are actually strong,
    and you are actually worthy,
    and you learn and learn…and so every day.

    Over time you learn that being with someone
    because they offer you a good future,
    means that sooner or later you’ll want to return to your past.

    Over time you comprehend that only who is capable
    of loving you with your flaws, with no intention of changing you
    can bring you all happiness.

    Over time you learn that if you are with a person
    only to accompany your own solitude,
    irremediably you’ll end up wishing not to see them again.

    Over time you learn that real friends are few
    and whoever doesn’t fight for them, sooner or later,
    will find himself surrounded only with false friendships.

    Over time you learn that words spoken in moments of anger
    continue hurting throughout a lifetime.

    Over time you learn that everyone can apologize,
    but forgiveness is an attribute solely of great souls.

    Over time you comprehend that if you have hurt a friend harshly
    it is very likely that your friendship will never be the same.

    Over time you realize that despite being happy with your friends,
    you cry for those you let go.

    Over time you realize that every experience lived,
    with each person, is unrepeatable.

    Over time you realize that whoever humiliates
    or scorns another human being, sooner or later
    will suffer the same humiliations or scorn in tenfold.

    Over time you learn to build your roads on today,
    because the path of tomorrow doesn’t exist.

    Over time you comprehend that rushing things or forcing them to happen
    causes the finale to be different form expected.

    Over time you realize that in fact the best was not the future,
    but the moment you were living just that instant.

    Over time you will see that even when you are happy with those around you,
    you’ll yearn for those who walked away.

    Over time you will learn to forgive or ask for forgiveness,
    say you love, say you miss, say you need,
    say you want to be friends, since before
    a grave, it will no longer make sense.

    But unfortunately, only over time…”
    Jorge Luis Borges



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