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"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time."
- A.A. Milne

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."
- Maya Angelou

"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn."
- by Sylvia Plath

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear."
- Lao Tzu

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
- Leo Tolstoy

"Her eyes were pearls, which gave her great beauty, but meant she was blind. Her world was the colour of pearls: pale white and pink, and softly glowing."
- Neil Gaiman

"Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color."
- W.S. Merwin

"The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die."
- Juliette Lewis

"I think a lot, but I don't say much."
- Anne Frank

"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn."
-Sylvia Plath

"The most memorable concern of mankind is the guts it takes to face the sunlight again."
- Charles Bukowski

"Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one. "
- Mark Twain

"Religion is not a value. Spirituality? Yes. Belief in God? OK. But religion itself? It's a discipline, one that pretends to be about love, family and charity, too often is a vehicle of hatred and war."
- Carl Sacks

"In order not to feel Time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, as you like. But get drunk."
- Baudelaire

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
- Anaïs Nin

"In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln

"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end."
- Ursula K. Le Guin

"Human kind cannot bear very much reality."
- T.S. Eliot

"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone."
- Rose Kennedy.

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent."
- Gandhi

"Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow."
- T.S. Eliot

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
- Anaïs Nin

"The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it."
- Wendell Berry

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
- Oscar Wilde

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it."
- Ayn Rand.

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
- Ben Okri

"Do not search out the Dragon to slay him, but instead to find love within his heart"
-Guiding Eagle

"It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Change is constant. Yet things remain the same."
- Illyria

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
- Carl Jung

"The Poet bears a likeness to that prince of the air,
who mocks at slingshots, and haunts the winds:
on earth, an exile among the scornful, where
he is hampered, in walking, by his giant wings."
- The Albatross, Baudelaire

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things."
- David & Leigh Eddings, Polgara the Sorceress

"When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; and the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed. On every act the balance of the whole depends."
- Ursula K. LeGuin, The Farthest Shore

"A long life isn't always a better one. In the end you just get tired. Tired of the struggle. Tired of losing everyone that matters to you. Tired of watching everything turn to dust. If you live long enough the only certainty is that you'll end up alone."
- DoctorWho

"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right."
- Ashleigh Brilliant

"And God said: 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on Me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'"
- John Wing

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
- Mark Twain

"When you have the will to succeed, you will somehow find a way, regardless of the obstacles you encounter."
- Napoleon Hill

"I'm not going to change who I am for other people. Like me for who I am now, or don't like me. And if you can't like me for who I am now, then you can just go to hell."
- Craig Miller

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
- Kahlil Gibran

"All through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape."
- Ancient Proverb

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
- C.S. Lewis

"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."
- Edgar Allan Poe

"Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it."
- Martin Luther King Jr

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius

"Life is worth living, we just need to figure out how."
- Jean Bull

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
- Robert Frost

"I automatically assume people won't like me, so I don't talk to them unless they approach me first. I can't become a part of a crowd because I can't get past that feeling that I don't belong."
- Stephanie Kuehnert

"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy."
- Charles Baudelaire

"It is to live that requires courage, not to die"
- Victoria Holt

"You tell me, and I forget. You teach me, and I remember. You involve me, and I learn."
- Benjamin Franklin

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
- H.P. Lovecraft

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