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#1

“Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: souls

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#2

“I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: women

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#3

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: fragility, love, vulnerability

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#4

“I’ve met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I’m not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months’ time, I’ll be far away and he’ll be just a memory, but I couldn’t stand living without love any longer; I had reached my limit…
Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meeting are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes directions.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: love, youth

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#5

“We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights. ”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

tags: inspirational

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#6

“All knowledge is worth having.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: inspiration, life, philosophy

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#7

“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

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#8

“Love as thou wilt”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: love

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#9

“Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: awake, aware, dream, ears, self

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#10

“Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: truth

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#11

“Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Scion

tags: imriel

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#12

“Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

tags: fiction, jacqueline-carey, kushiel-s-dart, love

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#13

“There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: circle, life, patterns, theme

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#14

“I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love.

It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss.

Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Curse

tags: love

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#15

“There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

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#16

“imagine the desert
mothers, with hair tangled
tighter than their theology
and breasts that flowed milk
and mystic wisdom. they
knew how to draw the singing
sigils in the sand, how to dig
rough and bitten fingers
into desiccated dirt for water
to wet the lips of their young.

women of hips and heft, who
learned how to burn
beneath the wild and searing
sun, who made loud love
against the star-flecked threat
of night, who knew that strength
is not always a matter of muscle.

imagine your ancestresses,
the prophetesses of the arid
lands, before these starched
traditions and pews too hard
to pray from, who bled true
ritual and birthed their own fierce
souls at creation's crowning --”
― Beth Morey, Night Cycles: Poetry for a Dark Night of the Soul

tags: dark-night, desert, divine-feminine, faith, god, goddess, mystic, poem, poetry, religion, spirituality

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#17

“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: monkey, pain, pointless, sacrifice, space

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#18

“plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
― Joe Poyer, The Chinese Agenda

tags: commonwealth, king, plot

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#19

“All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.”
― John Henry Comstock

tags: commonwealth, dependence, ecology, life, link, science, success

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#20

“Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

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#21

“There will be times when standing alone feels too hard, too scary, and we’ll doubt our ability to make our way through the uncertainty. Someone, somewhere, will say, “Don’t do it. You don’t have what it takes to survive the wilderness.” This is when you reach deep into your wild heart and remind yourself, “I am the wilderness.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

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#22

“But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?”
― Amie Kaufman, These Broken Stars

tags: annie-kaufman, hubris, icarus, lilac-laroux, meagan-spooner, mythology, these-broken-stars

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#23

“That's very noble of you, cautionary tales of hubris notwithstanding.'

'Hah! Please. Find me a more universally REWARDED quality than hubris. Go on, I'll wait. The word is just ancient Greek for "uppity," as far as I'm concerned. Hubris isn't something that destroys you, it's something you are PUNISHED for. By the GODS. Well, I've never met a god, just powerful human beings with a lot to gain by keeping people scared. So fuck hubris! Punch the sun, baby!”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan, Strong Female Protagonist: Book Two

tags: gods, hubris, status-quo

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#24

“The very idea of militia comprises a far greater danger to society than any single criminal or gang. It paves the way for lynch mentality and arbitrary administration of justice. It throws the protective mechanism of society out of gear.”
― Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

tags: militia

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#25

“You’re hurt.”

“No. No, I’m fine. It’s not blood. The militiamen were adjusting Sir Lewis’s trebuchet, and there was a mishap. You took a melon for me.” She smiled, even though her lips trembled.”
― Tessa Dare, A Lady by Midnight

tags: humor, love, melons, militia, trust

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#26

“Q: Have you been released or are you still a Beta version?
A: No official release of myself will ever follow!
Q: Then, you are not!
A: I”
― Rossana Condoleo

tags: adaptation, chameleon, chameleonism, change, evolving, flexibility, methamorphosis, personal-transformation, personality-change, personality-quotes, reaction, response

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#27

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#28

“There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: desire, lust

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#29

“It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: grief, sorrow, time

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