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“Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.”
— Wallace Stegne
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“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance…but beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life.” - Hunter S. Thompson
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“To accomplish great things , we must not only act , but also dream; not only plan , but also believe.” - Anatole France
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“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.” ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
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“Maybe we are broken. But we put ourselves back together. We survived. That’s what makes us so powerful.” — V.E. Schwab, Vengeful
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C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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“Maybe I’ll see you in another life, if this one wasn’t enough.”
— Florence + the Machine
Yoruba people have a custom of naming twins Taiwo and Kehinde. Taiwo is the older twin, the one who comes out first. Kehinde, therefore, is the second-born twin. But Kehinde is also the older twin, because he says to Taiwo, "Go out first and test the world for me."
My Sister, The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
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There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated. - Nelson Mandela
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And it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever witnessed. That a creature like you exists in my world.
Nicole Torres (via quotemadness)
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“And so it seems that I must always write you letters that I can never send.”
— Sylvia Plath
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She is proud, she is struggling with herself; but kind, charming, generous.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (via quotemadness)
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“A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.” - Bertrand Russell
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Don’t count the days, make the days count. Muhammad Ali
Never a more pertinent quote!
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When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new. - Dalai Lama
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“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want.”
— S.E. Hinton
"Tell Dally. I don't think he knows." 😭
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I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
John Burroughs, The Writings of John Burroughs (via books-n-quotes)
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