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#1

“If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

tags: contemporary, lara-jean, love, love-letters

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#2

“When all things go bad, do not think so badly about all things, instead think about the things that made all things bad and change something!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,

tags: be-happy, be-inspired, change-your-life, difficulties, mindset, thinking-too-much, when-things-go-wrong, worrying-over-nothing

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#3

“SOMETIMES THINGS HAVE TO GO WRONG.

THAT'S LIFE.

AND YOU HAVE TO STAY STRONG,

TO SURVIVE.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

tags: life, strong, survival, survive, when-things-go-wrong

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#4

“In life, things can always go wrong,
So always keep your heart strong,
Carry on, and never give up hope.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

tags: continue, courage, dispair, don-t-give-up, failure, heart, hope, when-things-go-wrong

24 likes

#5

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck

2889 likes

#6

“Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and ugly, there are shards of beauty if I look for them.”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

tags: bad-day, choose-beauty, depression, everyday-beauty, loss, memoir, optimisism, seek-beauty, small-things, struggle

64 likes

#7

“There's very little in my world that a foot massage and a thin-crust, everything-on-it pizza won't set right.”
― G.A. McKevett

tags: bad-day, pizza

28 likes

#8

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

4120 likes

#9

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: causality, causation, cause-and-effect, chance, darwinism, inspirational, kalam-cosmological-argument, luck, naturalism, necessity, serendipity

1087 likes

#10

“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: hard-work, luck

924 likes

#11

“Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.”
― Brandon Mull, Keys to the Demon Prison

tags: luck

207 likes

#12

“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: desires, fun, want

2333 likes

#13

“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”
― Andy Warhol

tags: irony, want, wanting

572 likes

#14

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings

6590 likes

#15

“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

tags: aspirations, desires, fantasy, inner-life

2368 likes

#16

“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

tags: desires, promises

1679 likes

#17

“One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: desire, desires

296 likes

#18

“Never give up.
It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: ambition, desires, dreams, drive, effort, hope, inspirational, perserverance, richelle, richelle-goodrich, trying

165 likes

#19

“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”
― Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs

tags: jealousy, materialism, want, yearning

530 likes

#20

“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

tags: angst, consumerism, dissatisfaction, lullaby, more, palahniuk, want

431 likes

#21

“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

tags: balance, finding-yourself, inspirational, need, satisfaction, truth, want, who-we-are

1010 likes

#22

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: chances, commitment, courtship, dating, faithfulness, friendship, love, marriage, mates, patience, relationships, risk-taking, soulmates, waiting-for-true-love

1887 likes

#23

“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...”
― Plato, The Symposium

tags: love, soulmates

756 likes

#24

“I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything.
Maybe we’re from the same star.”
― Emery Allen

tags: love, soul, soulmates, star

820 likes

#25

“When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: best-friends, betrayal, boyfriends, break-ups, dating, divorce, family, friends, friendships, girlfriends, lost-love, love, loved-ones, lovers, marriage, moving-on, parents, ponderings, reflection, relationships, romance, senseless, soulmates, true-love, unrequited-love

932 likes

#26

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: unrequited-love

8549 likes

#27

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love

4525 likes

#28

“Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

tags: hopelessness, unrequited-love, yearning

1994 likes

#29

“Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”
― Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly

tags: kill-me-softly, love, real-love, sarah-cross, unrequited-love

1653 likes

#30

“...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”
― Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief

tags: love, pain, unrequited-love

1261 likes

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