Quotes, Poetry and Writings

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I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

Margaret Atwood

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I think communication starts when words are not present at all … I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Marina Abramovic

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Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.

Unknown

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The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.

Unknown

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Maybe our favourite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

John Green

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Sometimes you put up walls – not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Socrates

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I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.

Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body And Other Parties

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I used to think that's what love was: Knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

Lauren Oliver

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Friendship is love without his wings.

Lord George Gordon Byron

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Do you ever feel like the people who mean the most aren’t the people you see the most? Lately I just feel like I’m not putting my heart where it matters.

Christina Lauren, Beautiful Player

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I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.

Paul McCartney

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You can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left...

John Geddes

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Change "I can't" into "I can" and pretty soon, you will say "I did":

Unknown

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I don’t hold on to anything anymore. Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It’s just not my thing anymore.

Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow To The Sea

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A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.

Madonna Ciccone

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See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

Unknown