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#1

“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
― Edith Wharton

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#2

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

tags: books, inspirational

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#3

“I'm sick of my own romanticism!”
― Anais Nin, Henry & June

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#4

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee

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#5

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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#6

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast

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#7

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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#8

“The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: appearances, blending-in

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#9

“Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter —maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: inspirational

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#10

“Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.”
― Greg Bear

tags: poetry, poets

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#11

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary

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#12

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

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#13

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

tags: annoyance, writing

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#14

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”
― Jessamyn West

tags: inspirational, writing

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#15

“No matter how nice the place is where you live, you need to experience life and the world.”
― Terri Irwin, MY STEVE

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#16

“Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.”
― Joan Chittister

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#17

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
― Anonymous

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#18

“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.”
― Thomas Aquinas

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#19

“Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.
- Sleepless in Seattle”
― Nora Ephron

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#20

“...believing trouble is gone forever is the beginning of a special kind of trouble.”
― Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

tags: life, trouble-quotes

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#21

“Destroying art is practice for destroying people.”
― Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

tags: art, war, writing

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#22

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: change, grief, loss, revelation

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#23

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

tags: fear, grief, sorrow

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#24

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: grief, inspirational

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#25

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: grief, harry-potter, hurt, pain

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#26

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
― Colette

tags: collapse, curiosity, flowers, friendly, friends, grief, letter, love, smile, tears

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#27

“I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#28

“You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: grief

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#29

“Grief is love turned into an eternal missing”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister

tags: death, grief, love

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#30

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

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