Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.
~Deborah Reber
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Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.
~John Steinbeck
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Time can be a greedy thing — sometimes it steals the details for itself.
~Khaled Hosseini
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There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.
~Sarah Dessen
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Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
~Roy T. Bennett
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Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.
~Laini Taylor
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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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There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
~Victor Hugo
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People are icebergs, with just a bit you can see and loads you can’t.
~David Mitchell
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One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won’t let you be anything less. They see the potential of you. They see endless possibilities. And through their eyes, you start to see yourself the same way as someone who matters. As someone who can make a difference in the world. If you’re lucky enough to find this person, never let them go.
~Susan Colasanti
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Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they’ve given us.
~Emery Allen
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Experience is the teacher of all things.
~Julius Caesar
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A heart like yours is rare.
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I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.
~Freddy Mercury
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Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, is your permanent reality.
~Ralph Marston
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When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
~Paulo Coelho
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There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don’t help them by doing the job yourself.
~Laurell K. Hamilton
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The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.
~Pandora Poikilos
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Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.
~David Richo
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Respect other people’s feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.
~Roy T. Bennett
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If you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
~Mitch Albom
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
~Fyodor Dostoyevski
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Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and forgiving heart. Be the one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.
~Marvin J. Ashton
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To be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, in the right way – that is not easy.
~Aristotle
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You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
~Winston Churchill
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Who can remember pain once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see.
~Margaret Atwood
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When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.
~Roy T. Bennett
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The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire. You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.
~Lemony Snicket
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Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.
~Jasmine Warga
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Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
~Brene Brown
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Pure love for another person, and what people call romantic love, are two different things. Pure love doesn’t manipulate the relationship to one’s advantage, but romantic love is different. Romantic love contains other elements—the desire to be loved by the other person, for instance. If purely loving another was enough, you wouldn’t suffer because of unrequited love. As long as the other person was happy, there wouldn’t be any need to suffer because you weren’t being loved in return. What makes people suffer is the desire to be loved by another person. So I decided that romantic love and pure love for a person are not the same. And that by following this you could lessen the pain of unrequited love.
~Haruki Murakami
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Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
~William James
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No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.
~Seneca
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You’re not a bad person because you want to be yourself.
~Jodi Picoult
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
~Toni Morrison
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
~Agnes Repplier
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Self-care is not selfish or self-indulgent. We cannot nurture others from a dry well. We need to take care of our own needs first.
~Jennifer Loudon
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In everyone’s life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.
~Karen Joy Fowler
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You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choices or yours. When you finally recognize that truth then you will understand the true meaning of forgiveness of yourself and others. From this point you will finally be free.
~Shannon L. Alder
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Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it.
~Michel de Montaigne
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Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but actually you’ve been planted.
~Christine Caine
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You are the only person who is in charge of how you feel about yourself. Nobody else can possibly do that. You get to decide if you believe you are beautiful or not, and nobody can take it away from you. If someone suggests that you aren’t beautiful, you can consider how sad it is that they have such a limited view of beauty. You can consider how unfortunate it is that they have such an exaggerated sense of self-importance that they think you should care about what they think. You can also choose to realize that it has nothing at all to do with your beauty and everything to do with their limitations.
~Ragen Chastain
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I used to fight the pain. But recently, this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy: it is my call to greatness.
~Henry Rollins
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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
~Jeanette Winterson
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Not everything is supposed to become beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they’ve given us.
~Emery Allen
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Self-worth is so vital to your happiness. If you don’t feel good about you, it’s hard to feel good about anything else.
~Mandy Hale
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To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
~Deepak Chopra
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Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
~John Lennon
