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And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the centre of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Joseph Cambell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

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See now, how men lay blame upon us vods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

The Odyssey

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If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Voltaire

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My only relief is to sleep. When I’m sleeping, I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m not lonely, I’m nothing.

Medoff Jillian. Hunger Point.  (via blomskvist)

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All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water.

Ian Thomas

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I lost the poem I wrote last night.

it said what I wanted, and I think I was proud of it.

but you have read it all before.

I never write anything new I never say anything new.

I am nothing new.

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All language is but a poor translation.

 Franz Kafka

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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts."

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 

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Now—for a breath I tarry Nor yet disperse apart— Take my hand quick and tell me, What have you in your heart.

 A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman 

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A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

William Shepp

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Ye flowers that droop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by Summer, cease to sing, Ye trees, that fade when Autumn-heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

Autumn; or Hylas and Ægon by Alexander Pope

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I guess in a way we’re all odd men out, until we find a match that makes us even. Someone who challenges us to be our best. Someone who understands us, even at our worst. I was beginning to appreciate how rare a thing that was.

The Wonder Years 

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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity. It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

Adrienne Rich 

(via Brain Pickings)

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When people say "there are other fish in the sea" I say "fuck you, she was my sea.

Jen Faulkner

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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau