Most of the quotes here are from my old Tumblr reblogs, but I update this list from time to time with good quotes I come across. :)

— Reminders

  • "If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." Martin Luther King Jr.
  • "People say I love you all the time - when they say, ‘take an umbrella, it’s raining,’ or ‘hurry back,’ or even ‘watch out, you’ll break your neck.’ There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear." The Curious Savage (John Patrick)
  • "The only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be." Haruki Murakami
  • "Never give up on something you really want. It’s difficult to wait, but worse to regret."
  • "The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can." Neil Gaiman
  • "Never cry for the same reason twice." Stephen Richards
  • "How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you."
  • "You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free." Thich Nhat Hanh
  • "Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." A. A. Milne
  • "Stop fighting yourself and start fighting for yourself."
  • "You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously." Steve Maraboli
  • "Your flaws are perfect for the heart that is meant to love you."
  • "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." Arthur Rubenstein
  • "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius
  • "If you cannot find a friend who is good, wise, and loving, walk alone, like a king who has renounced his kingdom, or an elephant roaming at will in the forest." Buddha
  • "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." Alexander Graham Bell
  • "Letting go isn’t easy, but it’s necessary." kushandwizdom
  • "If you see beauty in something, don’t wait for others to agree." Sherihan Gamal
  • "Whatever it is you’re running from - it goes with you. it stays with you until you find out how to confront it." Colleen Hoover, Slammed
  • "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
  • "When you can tell your story and it doesn’t make you cry, that’s when you know you’ve healed."
  • "I got my heart broken and I survived, I failed 3 courses in university and graduated, I got rejected in the very first job I applied for and got promoted yesterday, I went through hard times with my family but then two years later, we laughed our hearts out over lunch, The closest friends disappointed me several times but I made new friends and loved them with all my heart. I did it once, I can do it again." doaasadek
  • "You can begin again. You are not behind. You are exactly where you need to be to get to where you want to go."
  • "No one’s as amazing as they wish to be, it’s impossible. Everyone has some sort of picture in their mind of who they want to be, it’s human nature to improve ourselves."
  • "A mistake should be your teacher not your attacker. A mistake is a lesson not a loss. It is a temporary detour - not a dead end."
  • "Be a better you. For you." Inara Bueno
  • "Be softer with you. You are a breathing thing. A memory to someone. A home to a life." Nayyirah Waheed

— Relatable

  • "We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap." Anthony Hopkins
  • "Sometimes, I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart, and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am." Christopher Poindexter
  • "Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge you is yourself." Sarah Dessen
  • "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has." Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
  • "In a sense, I’m the one who ruined me: I did it myself." Haruki Murakami
  • "I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater." Tablo
  • "I destroy myself so you can’t." Six Word Story #1
  • "If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me." Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • "I have acid rain in my brain and it’s killing the flowers in my heart." Marianna Paige
  • "Hero and villain. I have been both." rustofstardust
  • "Às vezes tenho a horrível sensação de que o tempo passa e não faço nada, e nada acontece, e nada me comove até a raiz." Mario Benedetti

— The ones I just love

  • "Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable." Osho
  • "I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship."
  • "Music will carry you in your highest highs and save you in your lowest lows." Robb Flynn
  • "Art exists because life is not enough." Ferreira Gullar
  • "There’s a light in you and it makes me never fear the darkness in me." Tyler Knott Gregson
  • "One day someone is going to hug you so tight / That all of your broken pieces / Will stick back together"
  • "다름은 틀린것이 아니라는 걸. (Different doesn’t mean wrong.)" Kim Jonghyun
  • "We need at least one friend who understands what we do not say." Dr. Sunwolf
  • "I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art." Helena Bonham Carter
  • "The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist." Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
  • "Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein is the monster."
  • "A sorte deste mundo é mal segura / Se vem depois dos males a ventura / Vem depois dos prazeres a desgraça." Tomás Antônio Gonzaga
  • "Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance." Jean-Paul Sartre
  • "When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune." Albert Camus
  • "Que insensato eu fui! Como me esforcei para forçar todas as coisas a harmonizarem-se com o que eu pensava que devia ser..." Carl Jung
jan 9 2021 ∞
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