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#1

“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people”
― Edgar Degas

tags: painting

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#2

“When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.”
― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

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#3

“But trying to eliminate anger never works. The more you try to suppress it, the more likely it is to erupt later in a more virulent form. A better approach is to become as intimate as possible with how anger works on your mind and body so that you can transform its underlying energy into something productive.”
― Phil Jackson

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#4

“Fall down seven times. Stand up eight. JAPANESE PROVERB”
― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

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#5

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.”
― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

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#6

“I could bend you with my finger and my thumb. A mere reed you feel in my hands. But whatever I do with this cage, I cannot get at you, and it is your soul that I want.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#7

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#8

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#9

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights

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#10

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: charlotte-bronte, heart, heartbreak, jane-eyre, love, misconceptions, obscurity, parting, plainness, poverty, soul

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#11

“It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?"

I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still.

"Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: love, romance

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#12

“For several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not above that) but a dense, blanketing malaise. It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative). We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Jungle animals on attack, ancient icebergs collapsing, volcanoes erupting. I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand that I didn't immediately reference to a movie or TV show. A fucking commercial. You know the awful singsong of the blasé: Seeeen it. I've literally seen it all, and the worst thing, the thing that makes me want to blow my brains out, is: The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can't anymore. I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script.

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.

I would have done anything to feel real again.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: bored, derivative, human, personality-traits, real, secondhand-experience, seen-it-all

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#13

“I would rather die than be derivative.”
― E.A. Carter

tags: derivative, determination, die, rather, vow

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#14

“When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: artists, deep-thoughts, digging, enjoyment, learning, metaphorical, pain, poet, scenery, strength-through-adversity, unstoppable, writing

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#15

“When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief….
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
….. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day.”
― Ranata Suzuki

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#16

“Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.”
― Gianna Perada

tags: deep-thoughts, healing, life-and-living, moving, pain, rebirth, soulful

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#17

“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: aging, impatience, time, wisdom

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#18

“Taking care of myself doesn't mean 'me first.' It means 'me, too.”
― L.R. Knost

tags: children, life, motherhood, newborn, parent, parenting, self-care

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#19

“Drink this water,
Breathe this air,
Live this life,
And more awaits.”
― D.C. Thomas, Her Suns And Their Daughters: Daughters Of The Universe Seen

tags: air

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#20

“Let me adore
The whole being of you.”
― D.C. Thomas, Her Suns And Their Daughters: Daughters Of The Universe Seen

tags: adore, being, life, love, lust, relationship

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#21

“We are pawns of life, in dreams,
Queens and kings of fate, it seems -
In our earthly realm we dare to think,
But instead of reigning, we fall to sleep.”
― D.C. Thomas, Her Suns And Their Daughters: Daughters Of The Universe Seen

tags: asleep, dreams, fate, kings, life, pawns, queens, realm, reign

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#22

“We're running in a place
Where only walking is allowed.”
― D.C. Thomas, Her Suns And Their Daughters: Daughters Of The Universe Seen

tags: life, order, place, rules, running, struggle, thoughtful, together, walking

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#23

“I want to live in this field with you.
Loving you,
Wanting you,
Having you,
Becoming you,
Leaving you.”
― D.C. Thomas, Her Suns And Their Daughters: Daughters Of The Universe Seen

tags: desire, field, life, love, lust, relationship, wanting, yearning

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#24

“Lonely girls don't ask for attention,
They're quiet with their intentions,
They walk through halls of mirrors
With no reflection.”
― D.C. Thomas, Her Suns And Their Daughters: Daughters Of The Universe Seen

tags: attention, empowered, intention, introspection, life, lonely, mirror, quiet, reflection, strength

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#25

“Do not fall in love with people like me.
I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

tags: beautiful, blood, kiss, life, love, mouth, museums, parks

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#26

“When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

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#27

“The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change it's shape to let us in. It can expand to let us out. So can the vagina. It can ache for us and stretch for us, die for us and bleed and bleed us into this difficult, wondrous world. So can the vagina. I was there in the room. I remeber.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

tags: birth, heart, life, vagina, women

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#28

“The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

tags: carnal, clitoris, pleasure, vagina

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#29

“I am an extremely sincere individual. I am sincere, to a fault. One of the many things that I have come to realize, to learn, is that sincerity must be reserved and given only to those who deserve it. And one must save one's emotions, channeling them only to the people who are worthy of it. One must not throw one's pearls to the pigs.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: emotions, inspirational-quotes, poise, self-preservation, sincerity, the-art-of-poise, wisdom-quotes

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