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#1

“There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.”
― Richard Proenneke, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

tags: home, moving, packing, packing-up

52 likes

#2

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11251 likes

#3

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

2067 likes

#4

“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

tags: edward

3191 likes

#5

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

1961 likes

#6

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

2953 likes

#7

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir

tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness

3662 likes

#8

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

4211 likes

#9

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

1507 likes

#10

“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
― Nellie Bly

1817 likes

#11

“And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.”
― Suzan-Lori Parks

1074 likes

#12

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

3576 likes

#13

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

3051 likes

#14

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

2628 likes

#15

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

4187 likes

#16

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

1890 likes

#17

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

3133 likes

#18

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6457 likes

#19

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7685 likes

#20

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

tags: poetry

9286 likes

#21

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

6203 likes

#22

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
― Ed Sullivan

1640 likes

#23

“We are all worthy of one another.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

tags: love, worthiness

1373 likes

#24

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

2483 likes

#25

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

2731 likes

#26

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
― Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson

tags: life, loss

2019 likes

#27

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

tags: inspirational

2161 likes

#28

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

2379 likes

#29

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

128946 likes

#30

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: friends, friendship

2394 likes

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