You can get away from envy by enjoying the pleasures that come your way, by doing the work that you have to do, and by avoiding comparisons with those whom you imagine, perhaps quite falsely, to be more fortunate than yourself.
~Bertrand Russell
Tag: life
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There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement – no matter how temporary.
~Craig Thompson
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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
~Isaac Asimov
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
~James Baldwin
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~Nicolas Chamfort
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
~Thomas Merton
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But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
~Haruki Murakami
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To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
~Elizabeth Gilbert
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You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
~Chuck Palahniuk
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Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.
~Matt Haig
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“It’s true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We’re all busy people,we can’t spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.”
~William Boyd
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Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it’s for you don’t be proud or reckless, and when it’s against you be patient, for both days are test for you.
~Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
~Margaret Atwood
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I keep telling you the future isn’t set in stone. It’s not all decided yet. The future is just what’s down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.
~Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.
~Roy T. Bennett
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Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
~W.P. Kinsella
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
~Edward Abbey
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Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.
~V.E. Schwab
A Six-Word Story
Dear self,
let’s try again differently.
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Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
~Norton Juster
A Six-Word Story
Love yourself for everything you are.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
~Cormac McCarthy
A Six-Word Story
She’s broken enough to look back.
A Six-Word Story
One smile and my heart beats.
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Death’s greatest power is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people want to stop living.
~Fredrik Backman
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
~Marcus Aurelius
A Six-Word Story
I’m tired and I’m missing you.
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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
A Six-Word Story
Feeling everything deeply is not easy.
A Six-Word Story
Afraid that I’ll miss you forever.
A Six-Word Story
Words hurt more than we admit.
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.
~Neil Gaiman
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It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.
~John Guare
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Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.
~Roy T. Bennett
A Six-Word Story
He did not love her enough.
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Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.
~Paulo Coelho
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It’s never too late to change.
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Sometimes the smallest things take the most room in your heart.
~Winnie the Pooh
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Miss having you here beside me.
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Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.
~Mandy Hale
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He knows she won’t forgive him.
A Six-Word Story
It’s time for her to leave.
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I believe that kindness is the universal language. When someone does something kind it is understood despite language barriers or cultural differences. We should really communicate with kindness more often.
~Devin Patrick
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There’s a story behind her smile.
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All change is not growth, just as all movement is not forward.
~Ellen Glasgow
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Thank yourself for not giving up.
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I guess I’m trying to say, grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.
~John Steinbeck
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Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.
~Phil McGraw
