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#1

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

#2

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

12074 likes

#3

“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”
― Shana Abe

tags: love, romance

8589 likes

#4

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: love

11953 likes

#5

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: love

12583 likes

#6

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

9948 likes

#7

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love

9448 likes

#8

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

tags: love

6159 likes

#9

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James A. Baldwin

tags: love

5449 likes

#11

“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."
She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen.
"But I don't want anything else in the world.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

tags: clary-fray, jace-wayland, love

6786 likes

#12

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne

22176 likes

#13

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

tags: chocolate, friendship

16482 likes

#14

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88102 likes

#15

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance

19639 likes

#16

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7666 likes

#17

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship

5203 likes

#18

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy

tags: dreams, music

2976 likes

#19

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

tags: death, life, music

5156 likes

#20

“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: boyfriend, fame, grammy, humor, lady-gaga, music, relationship

1735 likes

#21

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: music, poetry, power-of-music

1414 likes

#22

“I saw him do a No More Potatoes Dance, after he saw me stuff the last of the mashed potatoes in my pocket. ”
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

68 likes

#23

“I have a 12:34 representational time dance. I do it at 3:33 every other Tuesday (twice a day). If you’d like to participate in my choreographed dance routine, bring a football helmet and a half empty can of tuna (keeps the stray cats away, because I perform in a gritty, grimy downtown alley). ”
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

98 likes

#24

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul”
― Martha Graham

tags: dance, dancing

1039 likes

#25

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

tags: dance, dancing, life

1788 likes

#26

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
― Rumi

tags: dance, inspirational

4469 likes

#27

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
― Mikhail Baryshnikov

216 likes

#28

“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking”
― Agnes De Mille

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#29