are you a voice or an echo?

i often feel, well to be honest- like jumping into the hudson... instead, i go to my favorite places and think about my favorite people, and then i re-read words that moved me, re-watch/listen to film clips that make me feel so much less alien and just a little more me. every time, like it is the first time. i need quotes, they're like verbal stills, stills that have captured all that is necessary to help me go on. to inspire me to be alright, being still not quite 'human'. which is so fucking overrated. - stillnothuman

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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

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Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Ulysses - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

When Harry Met Sally... Harry to Sally

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I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold that’s ego. Love liberates. It doesn’t bind. Love says, ‘I love you. I love you if you’re in China. I love you if you’re across town. I love you if you’re in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I’d like to have your arms around me. I’d like to hear your voice in my ear. But that’s not possible now, so I love you. Go.

Maya Angelou on LOVE, Oprah’s Master Class

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5 days, that’s a week. 10 days; YEAR.

Noah Ritter, on time spent in school/prison, The Ellen Show

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Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul.

Grand Inquisitor Silecio, The Fountain

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All these years, all these memories, there was you. You pull me through time.

Tom Creo, The Fountain

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Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto Me dio el corazón, que agita su marco… Cuando miro el fruto del cerebro humano Cuando miro el bueno tan lejos del malo Cuando miro el fondo de tus ojos claros" “Thanks to life which has given me so much It gave my heart, that flutters its frame… When I see the fruit of the human brain When I see the good so far from the bad When I see the bottom of your pale eyes

Violeta Parra, Gracias A La Vida

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Change will come to those who have no fear.

True Detective - Season Two

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If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.

Buddha

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When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.

Arrigo Boito - Falstaff

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Dwelling on the past is a waste of time, the present moment belongs to the one who's brave enough to seized it.

Roy Mustang of Time - Fullmetal Alchemist the Sacred Star of Milos

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What advice would you give a woman? To a young girl? To a child?

-Aimer (love)

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We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers & sisters.

Martin Luther King Jr. --- some things have yet to change.

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- Instantly recognize the other half of themselves behind the eyes of each other. The eyes have been rightly called "the windows of the soul." Even their voices are familiar to each others ears, like a remembered chord of music. These are two who immediately sense the unalterable fact that they have been – are – and must always be One… Even though they might have fought against their fate for centuries and struggled in vain to escape their linked destiny… Almost from the first moment they meet and gaze upon each other, their spirits rush together in joyful recognition, ignoring all convention and custom, all social rules of behavior, driven by an inner knowing too overwhelming to be denied. Inexplicably, often without a word being spoken, they know that only through each other can they hope to find Wholeness - Only when they're together can they both be Complete in every way.

Twin Flames - Linda Goodman's Love Signs

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Sometimes someone says something really small… and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart.

Angela and Jordan say goodbye, last words. - My So Called Life

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Just don’t take your turns too wide or anything. I’m sure you won’t.