- “Be like the flower who even gives its fragrance to the hand that crushes it” — Imam Ali (75)
- “Do not give yourself away. Never give yourself away. Observe the bloodshed but preserve your warmth. I want you to occasionally let go; but never surrender.” — Albert Camus (155; too long)
- “expect sadness like you expect rain. both, cleanse you.” — nayyirah waheed, natural (55)
- “If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars?” — Tunisian Proverb (54)
- “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everybody else forgets.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on Shore (64)
- “I told myself it would better to die than become a lukewarm person… a person who does not clearly know his likes and dislikes, a person who wants only to be loved without knowing how to love.” — Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask (191; too long)
- "A woman is not written in braille, you don’t have to touch her to know her.” (75)
- “The quieter you become the more you can hear.” — Ram Dass (45)
- “You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.” — Azar Nafisi (220; too long)
sep 20 2013 ∞
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