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#1

“You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing...after all, what's a life anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die...By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

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#2

“Morning, noon & bloody night,
Seven sodding days a week,
I slave at filthy WORK, that might
Be done by any book-drunk freak.
This goes on until I kick the bucket.
FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

tags: humour, letters-to-monica, poetry

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#3

“What will survive of us is love.

- from A Writer”
― Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

tags: death, love

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#4

“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands
Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken,
Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken,
Luminously-peopled air ascends;
And past the poppies bluish neutral distance
Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach
Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence:
Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.”
― Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

tags: isolation, lonliness, poetry, seclusion, silence, solitude

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#5

“As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.

As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody if I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today I call it “RESPECT”.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it “MATURITY”.

As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm. Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE”.

As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. Today I call it “SIMPLICITY”.

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF”.

As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time. Today I discovered that is “MODESTY”.

As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worrying about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where everything is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT”.

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know “THAT IS LIFE”!”
― Charlie Chaplin

tags: charlie-chaplin, self-love, self-love-quotes

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#6

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

tags: affection, alone, beauty, camaraderie, caring, caring-for-others, closeness, companionship, compassion, connectedness, connection, disconnection, empathy, estrangement, fellowship, friendship, friendship-quotes, hug, hugs, intimacy, isolation, kindness, kindred-spirits, loneliness, love, love-at-first-sight, love-quotes, lovers, loving, loving-someone, mirror, mutuality, partnership, reciprocal, reciprocity, reflected-in-you, relationship, relationship-quotes, relationships, romance, self-belief, self-esteem, self-hatred, self-realization, self-worth, self-worthiness, soul-mate, soulmates, togetherness, touch, twin-flames

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#7

“in a world
full of
temporary things

you are
a perpetual
feeling.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: feelings, fleeting, forever, forever-love, hopeless-romantic, perpetual, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, soulful, soulmates, temporary, valentine-s-day

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#8

“the saddest thing is to be
a minute to someone,
when you've made them your eternity.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: eternity, heartbreak, indian-authors, love-quotes, loving, loving-someone, minutes, pain, poetry, poetry-quotes, sad-quotes, sadness, unrequited-love

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#9

“The splendid thing
about falling apart
silently...
is that
you can start over
as many times
as you like.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

tags: deep, deep-thoughts, endings, failures, falling, falling-apart, inspirational, life-lessons, life-path, life-quotes, new-beginnings, positive-thinking, profound, silence

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#10

“a flower knows, when its butterfly will return,
and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;
but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,
when I don't know, if you will ever come back.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: butterflies, butterfly, flowers, goodbye, goodbyes, hurt, hurting, love-quotes, moon, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, sad-love, sadness, separation, verses

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#11

“To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: falling-in-love, indian-authors, love-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, romance, romancing, splendid, thoughts

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#12

“even
in the loneliest moments

i have been there
for myself.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: inspirational, loneliness, lonely, love-yourself, poetry, poetry-quotes, self-empowerment, self-esteem, self-help

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#13

“There is
something
mystically
sad
and beautiful
about
how
i will
never
see you
again

but
meet you
again
and again

in poetry.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

tags: beautiful, beauty, deep-thoughts, heartbreak, heartbroken, indian-authors, love-quotes, lovers, missing-you, mystical, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, profound, sad, sadness, writers

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#14

“I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,

I choose to love you in loneliness…
For in loneliness no one owns you but me,

I choose to adore you from a distance…
For distance will shield me from pain,

I choose to kiss you in the wind…
For the wind is gentler than my lips,

I choose to hold you in my dreams…
For in my dreams, you have no end.”
― Rumi

tags: love, love-quotes

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#15

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

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#16

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

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#17

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world

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#18

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

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#19

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

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#20

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent

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#21

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

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#22

“What shall I take with me?
Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?
How shall my heart act?
Is it that we come in vain to live,
to sprout over the earth?
Let us leave at least flowers,
let us leave at least songs.”
― Nezahualcóyotl

tags: beauty, existence, songs

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#23

“You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?”
― Nikita Gill

tags: breakup, hurt, love-quotes, relationship, romantic, sad, sad-quotes, storm

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#24

“…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you.
Some people might find that strange.
But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them.”
― Ranata Suzuki

tags: always-yours, beautiful, beautiful-quote, break-up-quote, break-ups, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, broken-heart, deep-love, deep-love-quotes, deep-thoughts, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, grieving, heartbreak, heartbreak-quotes, heartbroken, heartbroken-quotes, i-miss-you, loss, loss-of-love, loss-quote, loss-quotes, lost, lost-love, lost-love-quotes, love, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, memories, memories-quotes, memory, memory-quote, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, reminders, reminisce, reminiscence, reminiscing, sad, sad-quote, sad-quotes, sadness, secret-love, the-one-that-got-away, the-only-one, the-past, time, time-passing, time-quote, time-quotes, unrequited, unrequited-love, without-you

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#25

“There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”
― Ranata Suzuki

tags: beautiful, beautiful-quote, break-up-quote, break-ups, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, broken-heart, deep-thoughts, distance, distance-relationship, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, from-a-distance, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, grieving, heartbreak, heartbreak-quotes, heartbroken, heartbroken-quotes, i-miss-you, loss, loss-of-love, loss-quote, loss-quotes, lost, lost-love, lost-love-quotes, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, ocean, ocean-quotes, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, sad, sad-quote, sad-quotes, sadness, silence, silence-quote, silence-quotes, the-one-that-got-away, unrequited, unrequited-love, without-you

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#26

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

tags: fantasy, graphic-novel, love-quotes

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#27

“If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.
And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.”
― Ranata Suzuki

tags: always-yours, beautiful, beautiful-quote, break-up-quote, break-ups, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, broken-heart, deep-love, deep-love-quotes, deep-thoughts, distance, distance-relationship, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, from-a-distance, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, grieving, heartbreak, heartbreak-quotes, heartbroken, heartbroken-quotes, i-miss-you, loss, loss-of-love, loss-quote, loss-quotes, lost, lost-love, lost-love-quotes, love, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, memories, memories-quotes, memory, memory-quote, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, reminders, reminisce, reminiscence, reminiscing, sad, sad-quote, sad-quotes, sadness, secret-love, the-one-that-got-away, the-only-one, the-past, unrequited, unrequited-love, without-you

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#28

“Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

tags: love-quotes

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#29

“Rest you, my enemy,
Slain without fault,
Life smacks but tastelessly
Lacking your salt!
Stuck in a bog whence naught
May catapult me,
Come from the grave, long-sought,
Come and insult me!”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Young Adventure

tags: compassion, elegy-for-an-enemy, loss, rivalry

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#30

“The pleasures and riches of this life are but loaned, their substance is vain, their appearance illusory; and so true is this that I ask thee for an answer to these questions:

What has become of Cihuapan? Of the brave Quantzintecomatzin? Of Conahuatzin? What of all these people? Perhaps these very words have already passed into another life.

Would that we who are now united by the ties of love and friendship could foresee the sharp edge of death, for nothing is certain, and the future ever brings changes.”
― Nezahualcóyotl

tags: aztecs, carpe-diem, humility, humility-vs-vanity, poetry, time-passing

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