"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses."
Plato (via noelineb)
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"It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying."
Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape (via itsfromabook)
"Love is the kind of thing that’s already happening by the time you notice it, that’s how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn’t change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types — love where there’s an end in sight and love where there isn’t."
Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi (via itsfromabook)
"It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season—like all the other seasons—is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them."
Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal (via simply-quotes)
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"Fear does not go away, you just get more comfortable in it."
Hank Green (via pak-yu-poh)
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"A friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother."
Homer, The Odyssey (via itsfromabook)
"I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself."
Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl (via simply-quotes)
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"The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that disastrous New Year’s Eve when you mixed White Russians and champagne, and how you wore that red maternity dress until everyone was sick of seeing the blaze of it in the office, and the uncomfortable couch in your first apartment and the smoky stove in your beach rental. They look at you and don’t really think you look older because they’ve grown old along with you, and, like the faded paint in a beloved room, they’re used to the look. And then one of them is gone, and you’ve lost a chunk of yourself."
Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (via simply-quotes)
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"If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside."
Rachel Vincent, Shift (via simply-quotes)
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"Dear God,” she prayed, “let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry…have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost."
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (via itsfromabook)
"It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates."
"Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don’t go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day, or an hour, or a half a second when so much happens it’s almost like you got born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet."
E.R. Frank, Life Is Funny (via simply-quotes)
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"Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again."
Marie Lu, Legend (via simply-quotes)
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"One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes (via inspirinquotes)
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"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast. But when we say this, we imagine that the hour is placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun, or that death could arrive this same afternoon."
Final Destination (via simply-quotes)
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