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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

“Mountains of ice,
Leaves caverns of tears
To September sun,
Winter draws near
We learn to love and let
Go of tomorrows fears
To know that there's
So much more
To life than it appears”
― Stiofán Ó Riain

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy'd the sun,
To have liv'd light in the spring,
To have lov'd, to have thought, to have done;
To have advanc'd true friends, and beat down baffling foes...?”
― Matthew Arnold, Empedocles On Etna And Other Poems

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
― Herman Hesse

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“When angered I ask myself, “If I removed my anger or hurt from this situation and acted out of love and unity—if I acted from my highest self—what would I do now?”
― Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story