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#1

“Living itself is the source of sin.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#2

“I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#3

“Disqualified as a human being.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#4

“My Dearest Allie. I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I'll be seeing you. Noah”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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#5

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower

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#6

“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#7

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#8

“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower

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#9

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
― Nicholas Sparks

tags: hurt, sad, seperate, soul

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#10

“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

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#11

“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
― Lauren Conrad

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#12

“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: confused, happy, sad

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#13

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

tags: grief, love

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#14

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

tags: inspirational, love

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#15

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: love

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#16

“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

Everything passes.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#17

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: attitude, awareness, disorders, dreams, enlightenment, faults, focus, forgetting, future, goals, here, here-and-now, identity, issues, journeys, letting-go, life, life-lessons, living, memories, mental-illness, now, pain, past, planning, present, present-moment, realism, regrets, sanity, self-awareness, unresolved

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#18

“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow bottles of pills and end up in A&E having my stomach pumped? Am I seeking attention? Showing off? The pain of the cuts releases the mental pain of the memories, but the pain of healing lasts weeks. After every self-harming or overdosing incident I run the risk of being sectioned and returned to a psychiatric institution, a harrowing prospect I would not recommend to anyone.
So, why do I do it? I don't. If I had power over the alters, I'd stop them. I don't have that power. When they are out, they're out. I experience blank spells and lose time, consciousness, dignity. If I, Alice Jamieson, wanted attention, I would have completed my PhD and started to climb the academic career ladder. Flaunting the label 'doctor' is more attention-grabbing that lying drained of hope in hospital with steri-strips up your arms and the vile taste of liquid charcoal absorbing the chemicals in your stomach.
In most things we do, we anticipate some reward or payment. We study for status and to get better jobs; we work for money; our children are little mirrors of our social standing; the charity donation and trip to Oxfam make us feel good. Every kindness carries the potential gift of a responding kindness: you reap what you sow. There is no advantage in my harming myself; no reason for me to invent delusional memories of incest and ritual abuse. There is nothing to be gained in an A&E department.”
― Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

tags: abuse, alcohol, alcoholic, alter-personalities, alters, attention, cutting, dissociation, dissociative, dissociative-identity-disorder, emergency, healing, incest, memories, mental-health, mental-illness, multiple-personality-disorder, overdose, pain, psychiatric, psychological, ritual-abuse, self-harm, split-personality, suicide-attempt, survivor, trauma, victim

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#19

“The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie in a blacked-out room waiting for the voices to get infected by the pains in my head and clear off.

Knowing I was different with my OCD, anorexia and the voices that no one else seemed to hear made me feel isolated, disconnected. I took everything too seriously. I analysed things to death. I turned every word, and the intonation of every word over in my mind trying to decide exactly what it meant, whether there was a subtext or an implied criticism. I tried to recall the expressions on people’s faces, how those expressions changed, what they meant, whether what they said and the look on their faces matched and were therefore genuine or whether it was a sham, the kind word touched by irony or sarcasm, the smile that means pity.
When people looked at me closely could they see the little girl in my head, being abused in those pornographic clips projected behind my eyes?
That is what I would often be thinking and such thoughts ate away at the façade of self-confidence I was constantly raising and repairing.

(describing dissociative identity disorder/mpd symptoms)”
― Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

tags: abuse, alter-personalities, alters, anoretic, anorexia, anorexic, child-abuse, child-sex-abuse, depression, disconnected, dissociation, dissociative, dissociative-identity-disorder, headache, incest, internal-voices, mental-health, migraine, multiple-personality-disorder, porongraphic, self-confidence, sexual-abuse, survivor, trauma, voices

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#20

“Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs.

Valerie Sinason, (Forward)”
― Alison Miller, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

tags: abused-women, attachment, betrayal, child, child-abuse, child-abusers, cults, dissociation, dissociative-identity-disorder, emotional-abuse, fragment, lies, manipulation, mind, mind-control, muliple-personality-disorder, multiplicity, physical-abuse, psychological-abuse, psychology, rape, ritual-abuse, sexual-abuse, spiritual-abuse, splinter, therapy, torture, trauma

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#21

“We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize those identities, in order to know who you are today.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: dreaming, dreams, ego, enlightenment, exploration, future, goals, habits, happiness, healing, hell-to-well, identities, identity, knowing-yourself, life, life-and-living, life-changing, life-purpose, mental-disorders, now, oneness, organizing, past, personality, planning, plans, present, principles, relationship, road-to-recovery, sanity, self-awareness, self-improvement, self-realization, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com, thinking, true-self, wellness

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#22

“You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.”
― Julian Seifter

tags: assumptions, bias, diagnosis, identity, illness, mental-disorder, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, stereotype, stigma

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#23

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. ”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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#24

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: love, marriage

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#25

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

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#26

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: friendship, love

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#27

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: goodbye, inspiration, love

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#28

“We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory, do not seek our fans' favor, grace them with our smiles, or catch their kisses. We are unforgiving.
And I love it. Getting to be myself at last.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

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#29

“Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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#30

“There had to be one universe — just this one — where we don’t end up together. Here and now just happens to be it.”
― Gaby Dunn, Maybe in Another Universe: The Best of Gaby Dunn, Vol. 1

tags: breakup, love, multiverse, yearning

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