QMSD

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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Carl Sagan

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Who has not built his house, will not start now. Who now is by himself will long be so, Be wakeful, read, write lengthy letters, go In vague disquiet pacing up and down Denuded lanes, with leaves adrift below.

Rilke

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You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we weren't immortal. Sometimes I see children sobbing in airports and I think, “Aww. They've just been told.”

Carrie Fisher

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It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

J.K. Rowling

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My heart is so tired.

Markus Zusak

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To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

e. e. cummings

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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Veronica Roth

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He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.

Neil Gaiman

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The land of tears is so mysterious.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

Tim O'Brien

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I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Listen please: seize the moment, however worried you may be about what’s coming next. It’s your brain, it’s your life, it’s your attitude.... Go out there and fill up with sights, sounds, and ideas that are bigger than yourself. We all know from history what can happen if we stay quiet and just do what’s put in front of us.

James Patterson

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I imagined myself there, among them in the golden woods, watching them tilt their heads back and howl underneath a sky of endless stars.

Maggie Stiefvater

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I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come.

Christopher Marlowe

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And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

Charles Dickens

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You do not write your life with words… You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Patrick Ness