January 2012
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The...
– — Jack Kerouac
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He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.
– — Possession, A.S. Byatt
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Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary–I know all the other words. None...
– — Anis Mojgan
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Music is the language of the Universe. By creating good and harmonious...
– — Swami Nirmalananda
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters...
– — Kahlil Gibran
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Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...
– — Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Stress has become a lifestyle. People don’t know how to function without stress...
– — Emma Tyle
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As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere...
– — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.
– — Brian Andreas
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I think there’s a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really...
– — W. S. Merwin
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And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
– — Libba Bray
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Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
– — William Shakespeare
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in...
– — Virginia Woolf
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This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the...
– — John Steinbeck
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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they...
– — André Maurois
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that...
– — Nelson Mandela
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Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there...
– — Eckhart Tolle
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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are...
– — M. Scott Peck
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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are...
– - Anthony Robbins
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The secret is not to dream,” she whispered. “The secret is to wake up. Waking up...
– - Terry Pratchett
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I am going to school myself so well in things that, when I try to explain my...
– - Neruda
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I’m not afraid of the dark
We’ve been here before.
Fallen on hard times, honey...
– — “Long Shadows” by Josh Ritter
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.
– - Henry David Thoreau
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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...
– - Ira Glass
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Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she’d wanted had...
– - Anonymous