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- (nicholas browne) "i love people that read. i think it screams humility. when someone reads, they are essentially admitting they want more, that the world is not enough for them. they want more knowledge, more experience. whatever this life is, they want more of it."
- (unknown) "i think we were meant to be, but we did wrong."
- (unknown) "don't be afraid to fail. be afraid not to try."
- (jillian medoff) "my only relief is to sleep. when i'm sleeping, i'm not sad, i'm not angry, i'm not lonely, i'm nothing."
- (unknown) "my goals for 2016 is to never allow myself to fall as low as I did this year, never again."
- (maggie g) "she was like a star, nothing but a beautiful echo of death."
- (oscar de la renta) "there are no rules, no regulations, no frontiers that a woman cannot reach or surmount."
- (d.j) "in some other life / we are standing / side by side and / laughing that, in / some other life / we are apart."
- (unknown) "if you try to be something you're not, you'll end up being nothing."
- (unknown) "i'd say go to hell, but i never want to see you again."
- (unknown) "i want to be alone and i want people to notice me - both at the same time."
- (unknown) "seek to be worth knowing rather than well-known."
- (unknown) "my current situation is not my final destination."
- (albert camus) "the sea: i didn’t lose myself in it; i found myself in it."
- (unknown) "she was unstoppable - not because she did not have failures and doubts - but because she continued on in spite of them."
- (unknown) "sometimes you need to distance yourself and create alone time - so you can connect with who you really are, and discover for yourself what you want out of life."
- (unknown) "you wake up every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before, and that, my love, is bravery."
- (jon krakauer) "that’s what was great about him. he tried. not many do."
- (christopher mccandless) "i will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. god’s place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. people just need to change the way they look at things."
- (noor shirazie) “if flowers can / teach themselves / how to bloom / after winter passes / so can you."
- (fatema mernissi) " 'nature is woman’s best friend,’ she often said. ‘if you’re having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. that’s how a woman cures her fears’."
- (janice lee) "draw a monster. why is it a monster?"
- (unknown) "her soul belongs to words and books. Every time she reads, she is home."
- (unknown) "everyone deserves a second chance, but not for the same mistake."
- (lucy sutcliffe) "so stop waiting for fridays, and stop waiting for summers, and stop waiting for someone to fall in love with you, because those things will happen. but in the meantime, enjoy right now."
- (jean cocteau) "here i am trying to live, or rather, i am trying to teach the death within me how to live."
- (virginia woolf) "i need solitude. i need space. i need air. i need the empty fields round me; and my legs pounding along roads; and sleep; and animal existence."
- (anais nin) "i am lonely, yet not everybody will do. i don’t know why, some people fill the gaps but other people emphasize my loneliness."
- (unknown) "my heart swings back and forth between the need for routine and the urge to run."
- (ashe vernon) "how do i turn into sunshine? / i want to be so warm, so warm, / i forget what being cold / feels like."
- (unknown) "trust the timing of your life. trust your journey."
- (malcom forbes) "failure is success if we learn from it."
- (unknown) "i am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. one where my heart is full. my body loved. and my soul understood."
- (stewart o'nan) "you couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. you had to accept it as a whole—like the world, or the person you loved."
- (khalil gibran) "out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
- (paulo coelho) "tragedies do happen. we can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. but none of that is important; they did occur, and so be it. from there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild."
- (paulo coelho) "you will never be able to escape from your heart. so it’s better to listen to what it has to say."
- (paulo coelho) "don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not. you have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you."
- (bei dao) "in the world i am / always a stranger/ i do not understand its language / it does not understand my silence."
- (unknown) "autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go."
- (audrey hepburn) "i have to be alone very often. i'd be quite happy if i spent from saturday night until monday morning alone in my apartment. that's how i refuel."
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