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“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

“When confusion and uncertainty set in, just pray to the Prince of Peace and the fog will soon disappear.”
― Norma I. Garcia

“I let myself have feelings for you despite not knowing how this would end.”
― Siobhan Vivian, Not That Kind of Girl

“Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.”
― Amanda Palmer

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

“I hate women because they always know where things are.”
― Voltaire

“I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.”
― Benny Bellamacina, The King of Rhyme

“Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart”
― Kristi Maxwell

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“What's meant to be will always find a way”
― Trisha Yearwood

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”
― Paul Klee

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“The true leader is always led.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Sensation tell us a thing is.
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems