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    Anne Lamott
    “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
    ― Anne Lamott
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    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: acceptance, friendship
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    Gillian Anderson
    “Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
    ― Gillian Anderson
    tags: friendship, love, men, relationships, women
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    Richelle Mead
    “Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
    tags: friendship, humor, romance
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    Aristotle
    “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: friendship, soul
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    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: friendship
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    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Marlene Dietrich
    “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
    ― Marlene Dietrich
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
    ― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
    tags: empathy, friends, friendship, inspirational
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    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
    tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words
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  • #11
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
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    Salman Rushdie
    “A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
    tags: duty, inspiration, writing
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: exploitation, poetry, poets
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    Walt Whitman
    “I act as the tongue of you,
    ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: poet, poetry, poets
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire.
    He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found…of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
    tags: poetry, poets
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
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    Jane Kenyon
    “The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.”
    ― Jane Kenyon
    tags: poetry, poets, truth
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    “Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
    Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
    And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
    Must ask permission to know it and be known.
    The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
    I have made this place around you.
    If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
    No two trees are the same to Raven.
    No two branches are the same to Wren.
    If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
    You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
    Where you are. You must let it find you.”
    ― David Wagoner, Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
    tags: life, self-actualization, unrealized-potential
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: books
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
    tags: simplicity
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
    tags: reading
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: autumn, fall, solitude
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: disobedience, freedom, liberty, obedience, protest, slave, slavery, slaves
    1280 likes



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