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#1

“If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)”
― Mercedes Lackey, Owlknight

tags: stupid, stupidity, trying

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#2

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
― Mercedes Lackey

tags: past, regret

631 likes

#3

“Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Brightly Burning

tags: courage, fear

210 likes

#4

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: humanity, kindness, relationships

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#5

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”
― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

tags: being-loved, completion, inspirational, love, relationships

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#6

“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
― Tom Robbins

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#7

“I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.”
― Aimee Carter, The Goddess Test

tags: god-of-the-underworld, hades, henry, love, relationships

1138 likes

#8

“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”
― Gerald G. Jampolsky, Love Is Letting Go of Fear

tags: forgiveness, inner-peace, letting-go

285 likes

#9

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20729 likes

#10

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

8310 likes

#11

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading

15845 likes

#12

“Imperfection is simply not a good enough excuse to have someone keep hurting you just because they feel like it.”
― Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

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#13

“I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”
― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

tags: anxiety, art, beach, born-ready, cape-cod, coming-of-age, constellations, depression, destiny, fate, friends, girls, growing, growing-up, healing, hope, inspiration, jennifer-elisabeth, learning, life, love, lovers, ocean, pray, prayer, red-thread, red-thread-of-destiny, red-thread-of-fate, self-acceptance, self-love, self-reflection, soul, soul-mates, stars, teenagers, teens, time, universe, wish

472 likes

#14

“If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

tags: humor, insanity, sanity

1485 likes

#15

“Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: sanity

1792 likes

#16

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
― Tim Burton

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#17

“Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

tags: changes, drinking, harry-dresden, laughter, sanity, sanya

887 likes

#18

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: psychiatry, sanity

1041 likes

#19

“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price

tags: writing

1192 likes

#20

“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

tags: islam, religion, spirituality

3993 likes

#21

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: metaphysics, philosophy, science, sense-of-wonder, spirituality

2813 likes

#22

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
― Anais Nin

tags: knowledge, mystery, sense-of-wonder, spirituality

2082 likes

#23

“How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.”
― June Ahern

tags: life-lessons, psychology, spirituality, truth

993 likes

#24

“Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends.”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

tags: angel-poems, classic-books, classic-quotes, creative-vision, famous-quotes, gold, grace, haiku, haikus, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspiring-authors, inspiring-words, joy, love, national-poetry-month, personal-growth, poem-in-your-pocket-day, poetry, positive-motivation, psychotherapy, rainbow, rainbows, self-esteem, self-love, self-motivation, self-respect, spirituality

1107 likes

#25

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

tags: spirituality

1145 likes

#26

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: change, community, incrementalism, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world, yourself

1963 likes

#27

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
― Ruth Reichl

tags: community, eating, food, life, sharing

1399 likes

#28

“Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.”
― Adelaide Hoodless

tags: community, education, inspiriational, proverb, sharing, women

626 likes

#29

“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

tags: community, creation, healing, health, life, loneliness

283 likes

#30

“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: alone, comfort, communication, community, community-service, compassion, empathy, encourage, encouragement, give, giving, help, helping-others, helping-out, kindness, letting-them-in, lonelyness, lost, love, missions, novels, reaching-out, selflessness, service, share, sharing, stories, tears-together, transparency, vulnerability

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