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“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Most people miss their whole lives, you know. Listen, life isn't when you are standing on top of a mountain looking at a sunset. Life isn't waiting at the alter or the moment your child is born or that time you were swimming in a deep water and a dolphin came up alongside you. These are fragments. 10 or 12 grains of sand spread throughout your entire existence. These are not life. Life is brushing your teeth or making a sandwich or watching the news or waiting for the bus. Or walking. Every day, thousands of tiny events happen and if you're not watching, if you're not careful, if you don't capture them and make them COUNT, your could miss it. You could miss your whole life.”
― Toni Jordan, Addition

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Als je iets wil, en wel zo graag dat je er alles voor over hebt, maar dan ook echt alles: kan het dan eigenlijk mislukken? Was elke poging die je ondernam niet al een overwinning? Ik zal het hier halen vandaag. Ik kan niet anders. Misschien was het leven niet meer dan proberen.”
― Els Beerten, Lopen voor je leven

“You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?”
― George Gordon Byron

“A drop of ink may make a million think.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Persevere. There is one dandelion that grows from the crack in the cement. Let that one dandelion be YOU.”
― Dr Margaret Aranda

“There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.”
― Kris Radish, The Shortest Distance Between Two Women: A Novel

“Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.”
― Octavio Paz , The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

“No one behind, no one ahead.
The path the ancients cleared has closed.
And the other path, everyone's path,
easy and wide, goes nowhere.
I am alone and find my way.”
― Octavio Paz

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.

it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65,
you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die.
However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find––
is they are not always with whom we spend our lives”
― Beau Taplin, Hunting Season

“It is a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.”
― Beau Taplin

“I’m tired of trying to fill up my empty spaces with things I don’t need and people I don’t like.”
― Beau Taplin

“Some goodbyes are not ends but releases.”
― Beau Taplin

“Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too.”
― Beau Taplin

“Te veel belang hechten aan je imago is niet goed. Want wat is een imago eigenlijk? Waarvoor dient het? De beste persoonlijke filosofie is de filosofie die alle mensen naar dezelfde waarde schat onafhankelijk van hun loon, talent of imago. Onze belangrijkste eigenschap is die om lief te hebben en die eigenschap bezitten we allemaal.”
― Rafael Santandreu

“Be as a tower, that, firmly set,
Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. ”
― Carlos Castaneda

“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
― Mother Teresa