A Journal of Quotes

I'm bad with words, so I use the words of others to describe my life and my experiences.

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If creation is so beautiful, how much more, then, must its Creator be?

(via raininggrace)

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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

John Green in Paper Towns (via biographyofquotes)

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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow.

Jerry Spinelli in Stargirl (via biographyofquotes)

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In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (via biographyofquotes)

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I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying - trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.

Roxane Gay in Bad Feminist: Essays (via biographyofquotes)

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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac in On the Road (via biographyofquotes)

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You are still young, free. Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

Jhumpa Lahiri in The Namesake (via biographyofquotes)

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He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.

Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451 (via biographyofquotes)

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Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he’d say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn’t even see the stars. We’d have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them.

Jeannette Walls in The Glass Castle (via biographyofquotes)

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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Thomas Merton (via biographyofquotes)

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Softness is not weakness. It takes courage to stay delicate in a world this cruel.

Beau Taplin (via biographyofquotes)

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I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person.

Oscar Wilde (via biographyofquotes)

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In 900 years of time and space, and I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important.

Doctor Who, Eleventh Doctor (via biographyofquotes)

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Watch carefully, the magic that occurs, when you give a person, just enough comfort, to be themselves.

Atticus (via biographyofquotes)

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Her heart was wild, but I didn’t want to catch it, I wanted to run with it, to set mine free.

Atticus (via biographyofquotes)

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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

Iain S. Thomas (via biographyofquotes)

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You can be in love with one thousand views and skylines and souls and minds at once. Don’t apologize for your burn, your passion, or your enthusiasm. Enthusiasm propels the world.

Victoria Erickson (via biographyofquotes)