To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I am the daughter of myself. I am born of my own dream. My dream sustains me.”
— Rosario Castellanos, from Wailing Wall
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“Some days, I feel everything at once. Other days, I feeling nothing at all. I don’t know what’s worse: drowning beneath the waves or dying from the thirst.”
— o.m (via quotefeeling)
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The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.
— Bethany Brookbank, Write like no one is reading
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“Thoughts of her come upon my mind gently, / As dew upon the petals of roses.”
— Ezra Pound, from Exultations; “Laudantes Decem Pulchritudinis Johannae Templi,”
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“Take a lot of pictures, you’ll only regret the ones that you didn’t take.”
— Unknown (via quotefeeling)
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I have this on my bathroom mirror!
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
— Jim Rohn (via thoughtkick)
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“When you stop talking to people, stop talking about them too.”
— Unknown (via thoughtkick)
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“In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.”
— Virginia Woolf
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The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It's always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it's a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.
— Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
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But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.
— Julio Cortazar
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“You need to learn to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life … work on the mind.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
— Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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