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“We often take for granted those familiar faces and places, the repetitive nature of something once new, excitement wanes. To capture that early moment and hold onto it for all our days, true bliss. Looking at the old in in a different way, making it new once again.”
― Jonathan Lamas

tags: life-and-living, making-it-last, old

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#2

“You might find me cleverly clad, in black on black, at 28th and 7th Ave.”
― Jonathan Lamas, Sanctuary of Expression

tags: late-nights, manhattan, new-york, new-york-city

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#3

“And I played music through the night, alone, echoing through the halls. My life, alive through note.”
― Jonathan Lamas, Sanctuary of Expression

tags: alive, alone-but-not-lonely, music, night

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#4

“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.”
― Rita Mae Brown

tags: be-yourself, individuality, love

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#5

“I realize I'm just a silly stranger goofing with other strangers for no reason far away from anything that ever mattered to me what that was--Always an ephemeral "visitor" to the Coast nevery really involved with anyone's lives there because I'm always ready to fly back across the country but not to any life of my own on the other end either, just a traveling stranger like Old Bull Balloon... (p. 178)”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

tags: attachment, interpersonal-relationships, roaming

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#6

“Just like the days, no two sunrises are ever the same.”
― Jonathan P Lamas, Out On My Own

tags: days, sunrise, sunrises

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#7

“To taste life, so true and real. Sweet serenity.”
― Jonathan Lamas

tags: life-and-living, serenity

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#8

“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

tags: inspiration, remembrance, starlight, stars

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#9

“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

tags: burning, fire, house, trapped, windows

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#10

“In one of those stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night. And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend...I shall not leave you.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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#11

“Supposing I know of a flower that is absolutely unique, that is nowhere to be found except on my planet, and any minute that flower could accidentally be eaten up by a little lamb, isn't that important? If a person loves a flower that is the only one of its kind on all the millions and millions of stars, then gazing at the night sky is enough to make him happy. He says to himself "My flower is out there somewhere." But if the lamb eats the flower, then suddenly it's as if all the stars had stopped shining. Isn't that important?”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: flower, stars, the-little-prince

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#12

“Time Does Not Bring Relief

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,—so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, “There is no memory of him here!”
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

tags: heartbreak, memories, poetry, sorrow, yearning

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#13

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

tags: alone, birth, death, growing-up, growth, life, lonely, love, self-respect

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#14

“I am troubled, immeasurably
by your eyes.
I am struck by the feather
of your soft reply.
The sound of glass
speaks quick, disdain
and conceals
what your eyes fight
to explain.”
― Jim Morrison, Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1

tags: love

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#15

“It’s sad how we so often reward bad behavior in our society, while the good ones are left in the shadows, often held to higher standards.”
― Jonathan Patrick Lamas, Sanctuary of Expression

tags: behavior, life-and-living

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#16

“Life's a struggle, full of joy and grief. Comes into your life, you never think it will leave.”
― Jonathan Patrick Lamas, Sanctuary of Expression

tags: life, life-lessons-quotes, life-quotes

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#17

“No, I don't miss you... Not in a way that one is missed.
But I think of you.
Sometimes.
In the way that one might think of the summer sunshine
On a winter night...”
― Sreesha Divakaran, Those Imperfect Strokes

tags: love, missing-someone, missing-you, sunshine, winter

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#18

“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

tags: doors, huxley, perception

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#19

“...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

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#20

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humour

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#21

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#22

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#23

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: manners, wit

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#24

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: life

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#25

“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#26

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: pleasure

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#27

“We slowly lose, from day to day, those little things, that pass away, with the ever changing winds of life, that come from all directions.”
― Jonathan P. Lamas, Sanctuary of Expression

tags: life, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, loss

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