• Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. The Little Prince
  • Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. George Carlin.
  • what doesn’t kill you/ leaves scars/ ruins your lungs/ dries out all/ your tears/ leaves you lying awake at 4 in the morning/ wishing you weren’t alive c.c
  • People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like: ‘be realistic.’ Dylan Moran
  • If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. Lao Tzu
  • It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being. F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
  • And it’s hard to hate someone once you understand them. Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
  • Never give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping.
  • When someone makes you the happiest person and the saddest person at the same time, that’s when it’s real. That’s when it’s worth something.
  • There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you. Björk
  • Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. Ralph Marston
  • If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love. Mara Wilson
  • Machines are for answers; humans are for questions. The world that Google is constructing—a world of cheap and free answers—having answers is not going to be very significant or important. Having a really great question will be where all the value is. Kevin Kelly
  • Stop setting yourself on fire for someone who stays to watch you burn.
  • I’ve become a living apology, I am sorry. an eight word poem (d.v.e)
  • Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours shine brighter.
  • I design clothes because I don’t want women to look all innocent and naïve… I want woman to look stronger… I don’t like women to be taken advantage of… I don’t like men whistling at women in the street. I think they deserve more respect. I like men to keep their distance from women, I like men to be stunned by an entrance. I’ve seen a woman get nearly beaten to death by her husband. I know what misogyny is… I want people to be afraid of the women I dress. — Alexander McQueen
  • I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. — Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors
  • You don’t need to be perfect to inspire others. Let people get inspired by how you deal with your imperfection. — Wilson Kanadi
  • When you start to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in their energy, recognize the scent of their skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and your body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant. - Lisa Unger
  • When I met you, flowers started growing in the darkest parts of my mind.
  • When something bothered me, I didn’t talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that’s just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own. — Haruki Murakami, “Sputnik Sweetheart”
  • Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. — Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live. This is the most important legacy of Solomon Northrup. I dedicate this award to all people who have endured slavery and the 21 million people who still suffer slavery today. — Steve McQueen
  • Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don’t know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn’t you. That isn’t you at all. — Leila Sales This Song Will Save Your Life
  • When I look down at this golden statue, may it remind me and every little child, that no matter where you're from, your dreams are valid. - Lupita Nyong'o
  • Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn’t happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones? — Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You
  • John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting. - Mark Sheppard
  • I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be. — Sylvia Plath
  • I'm not sure where I want to go, or who I want to be. All I know is that, ten years from now, I hope that I am happy. - Paige Romero
  • We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking. — Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
  • I stopped telling myself that I’m lost. I’m not. I’m on a road with no destination, I’m just driving with hope that I’ll find a place that I like and I’ll stay there. I’m not lost, I’m on my way. — Ahunnaya
  • Expect nothing. Appreciate everything.
  • Some people create their own storms, then get upset when it rains.
  • I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show. — Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
  • Be good to people. Even the shitty ones. Let the assholes be assholes. You’ll sleep better. — Adam Gnade
  • Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. — Victor Hugo: Ninety-Three
  • Forget stardust—you are iron. Your blood is nothing but ferrous liquid. When you bleed, you reek of rust. It is iron that fills your heart and sits in your veins. And what is iron, really, unless it’s forged? You are iron. And you are strong.
  • Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clear view again. Alex Tan
  • We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
  • Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.
  • I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not. Augusten Burroughs, A Wolf at the Table
  • Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. C. S. Lewis
  • Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken." C.S. Lewis
  • Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. Aldous Huxley
  • Don’t let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
  • Physics can be difficult sometimes. And by sometimes, I mean always. And by Physics, I mean everything. Sam Davis
  • If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon? Margaret Atwood, Power Politics: Poems
  • But you see, there is a graveyard in my mouth filled with words that have died on my lips. Emily Palermo
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