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  • #1
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
    tags: hurts, ocean, risk, run, running, stand-back-up, survival, survive, waves
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    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
    ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    tags: adversity, beauty, empathy, people, understanding
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
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    Albert Camus
    “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

    And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, calling, life
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
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    Tyler Knott Gregson
    “Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”
    ― Tyler Knott Gregson
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  • #9
    “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: apology, healing, healing-the-past, moving-on
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  • #10
    Augusten Burroughs
    “I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs
    tags: flaws, individuality
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  • #11
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    Susanna Kaysen
    “I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
    ― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
    tags: girl-interrupted, survival, susanna-kaysen, talent
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  • #13
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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  • #14
    Sarah Kay
    “Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
    ― Sarah Kay
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Enjoy it. Because it's happening.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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  • #16
    Joyce Meyer
    “I'm not where I need to be, but thank God i'm not where I used to be.”
    ― Joyce Meyer, Me and My Big Mouth!
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    tags: life
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #19
    Gautama Buddha
    “Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.”
    ― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
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  • #20
    Violet Yates
    “I am a work in progress.”
    ― Violet Yates, Lost & Found
    tags: addiction, depression, poetry, recovery
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: forgetting, forgiving, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-and-living, moving-on, people
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  • #23
    Sierra DeMulder
    “Your body is not a temple.
    Your body is the house you grew up in.
    How dare you try to burn it to the ground.
    You are bigger than this.
    You are bigger
    than this.”
    ― SIERRA DEMULDER
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: anorexia, self-esteem
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    David Richo
    “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
    ― David Richo
    tags: healing, inspiration, pain, psychology, relationships, therapy
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
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  • #27
    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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  • #28
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: scars, souls, suffering
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  • #29
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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  • #30
    Joseph Chilton Pearce
    “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
    ― Joseph Chilton Pearce
    tags: courage, creativity, inaction, just-do-it
    237 likes



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