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#1

“The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land — all things born of the soul that can only be felt.”
― Anthony De Sa, Barnacle Love

tags: feel, longing, soul

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#2

“He'd always known that shit rolled downhill, but he never knew tears did the same thing.”
― Amy Lane, Talker

tags: crying, empathy, sorrow, tears

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#3

“A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.

Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted! ”
― Buddha, The Dhammapada: Verses on the Way

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#4

“Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
"Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor, less, more, nonsense, tea

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#5

“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: queen-of-hearts

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#6

“A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.”
― Joe Bousquet

tags: silence, star, wind

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#7

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: clouds, star

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#8

“My thoughts are like butterflies. They are beautiful, but they fly away.”
― Anonymous

tags: add, adhd, beautiful-thoughts, butterflies, little-boy-with-adhd, thoughts

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#9

“Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing", said the Butterfly.”
― Sabrina Newby

tags: aging-gracefully, butterflies, change, fear, fearless, growth, insightful, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, maturity, wisdom-quotes

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#10

“Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?"

"It is if you first become a part of nature. You suppress your presence as a human being, stay very still, and convince yourself that you are a tree or grass or a flower. It takes time, but once the butterfly lets its guard down, you can become friends quite naturally."

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" ... I come here every day, say hello to the butterflies, and talk about things with them. When the time comes, though, they just quietly go off and disappear. I'm sure it means they've died, but I can never find their bodies. They don't leave any trace behind. It's like they've been absorbed by the air. They're dainty little creatures that hardly exist at all: they come out of nowhere, search quietly for a few, limited things, and disappear into nothingness again, perhaps to some other world.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1

tags: butterflies

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#11

“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: adversity, authenticity, being-yourself, boldness, breaking-the-rules, chances, dance, dancing, finding-yourself, fitting-in, getting-older, go-against-the-grain, happiness, journey-of-life, laughter, lessons, lessons-learned, life-lessons, living-life-on-your-own-terms, loving-yourself, non-conformity, overcoming-adversity, positive-thinking, road-less-traveled, rules, standing-out, taking-chances, the-single-woman, uniqueness

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#12

“I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights

tags: apocalypse, silence

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#13

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry

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#14

“Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

tags: apocalypse, armageddon, cinema, death, end-of-the-world, life, post-modernism, simulacra

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#15

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

tags: hope, love

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#16

“Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

tags: artificial-intelligence, computers, diversity, robots

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#17

“Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?”
― Dave Matthes, Bar Nights

tags: alcoholism, ambition, booze, bottle, daydreaming, death, destruction, half-empty, half-full

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#18

“When you get lost in a really strange place,
nothing is more comforting than found your
friend whom you trust and can show the way.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: comfort, friend, lost, place, strange, trust, way

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#20

“It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.”
― Ibsen Henrik 1828-1906, Ghosts

tags: ghosts

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#21

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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#22

“From the first day we have been fighting the wrong enemy; our common enemy is religion which dictates upon us division and partition.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

tags: atheism, common, dictate, division, partition, religion, wrong-enemy

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#23

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius, The Book of Rites

tags: art, music, power-of-music

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#24

“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach

tags: christian, inspirational, music, power-of-music

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#25

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: dream, imagination, reality, war

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#26

“And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

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#27

“Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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#28

“This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

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#29

“In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, Real Wyrd : A Modern Shaman's Roots in the Middle World

tags: animism, paranormal, shamanism, wyrd

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#30

“That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx

tags: escape, jennifer-l-armentrout, onyx

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#31

“Let the people discover you! You might have the key of the locked doors in their lives! Open yourself to the world; you might be the magic the world needs!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: key

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