• Differentiating is like squeezing toothpaste out of the tube. Integrating is like putting the toothpaste back into the tube.
  • The world is full of nice people. If you can't find one, be one.
  • It's killing me how instead of holding your hand, I'm gripping pens writing about the day you let go of mine.
  • My entire life can be described in one sentence: It didn't go as planned, and that's okay. Rachel Wolchin
  • It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Lou Holtz
  • Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho
  • Words are loaded pistols. Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Kindness. It doesn’t cost a damn thing. Sprinkle that shit everywhere.
  • Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite, and the wounds never close. Stephen King
  • My life is a struggle between my need for acceptance, my fear of rejection, and a desire to not care at all.
  • Don’t criticize what you can’t understand. Bob Dylan
  • The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live —moreover, the only one. Emil Cioran
  • True friendship resists time, distance and silence. Isabel Allende
  • Have more than you show, Speak less than you know. William Shakespeare, King Lear: Act 1, Scene 4
  • Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.
  • We’re all so desperate to be understood, we forget to be understanding. Beau Taplin, mutual understanding
  • You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. Osho
  • Don’t judge everyone else by your limited experience. Carl Sagan
  • Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel
  • In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you. Mortimer J Adler
  • The world is full of nice people. If you can’t find one, be one.
  • I give because I know how it feels to want.
  • You were the hardest lesson I ever had to learn. My Ten Word Story
  • Words are so heavy. The Book Thief
  • It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there. Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Every time someone tells me to smile; I think of you. a.p
  • The mouth should have three gatekeepers. Is it true? Is it kind? And is it necessary? Arab Proverb
  • The next time you feel as though your life is a mess, look around. The cosmos, the constellations, this planet, you—look at all the marvelous things that complete and utter chaos can do. Beau Taplin, Chaos.
  • Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on. Stephen King, Bag of Bones
  • You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you? Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
  • Don’t compare your Chapter 1 to someone else’s Chapter 20.
  • Math is powerful. You have godlike powers over things nobody else in the world cares about.
  • Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can. J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales
  • sometimes ‘brb’ stands for ‘be ready bitch’ so you have to be careful
  • Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. Alan Turing
  • Reality is ugly, but life is beautiful. Epik High, “Life is Good”
  • Do your best, and be a little better than you are. Gordon B. Hinckley
  • The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths. Barry H. Gillespie
  • We’re all so desperate to be understood, we forget to be understanding. Beau Taplin, mutual understanding
  • Where we are going, I don’t know. It doesn’t seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between. Mary E. Pearson The Adoration Of Jenna Fox
  • Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses— especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. Leonardo da Vinci
  • __ "Mom, why do the best people die?" "When you’re in a garden, which flowers do you pick?" "The most beautiful ones." __
  • Maybe loneliness is an acquired taste, or maybe it’s like plunging your hand in ice water - it hurts like hell in the beginning, and then you go numb. Tiffany Schmidt Bright Before Sunrise
  • I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I. Sylvia Plath
  • People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.
  • You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. Neil Gaiman
  • The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. Anne Morrow Lindberg, Girl from the Sea
  • I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody. Louis L’Amour
  • If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. Dalai Lama
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