“The moment one…

“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.”
— Henry Miller

“Maybe you just…

“Maybe you just have to live for the small things, like being called pretty or someone picking up the pen you dropped or laughing so hard that your stomach hurts. Maybe that’s all that really matters at the end of the day.”
— Tianna Kavanagh

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
— Franklin P. Jones

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“Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.”
— Real Live Preacher

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
— Ernest Hemingway

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“That’s one of…

“That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”
— Dave Grohl

“If you hear a …

“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint”, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
— Vincent Van Gogh

“The goal in l…

“The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.”
— Aldous Huxley

“You should ne…

“You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat Pray Love’

“Let the beaut…

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
— Rumi

“People create…

“People create… little systems of explanation. Things that are not really true, but are easier to digest than the intricacies of reality.”
— Paul Hornschemeier, ‘Mother, Come Home’

“People create…

“People create… little systems of explanation. Things that are not really true, but are easier to digest than the intricacies of reality.”
— Paul Hornschemeier, ‘Mother, Come Home’

“Whatever you …

“Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.”
— W. H. Auden

“I don’t blame…

“I don’t blame you for being you, but you can’t blame me for hating it.”
— Fall Out Boy

“We are more i…

“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
— François De La Rochefoucauld

“The deepest p…

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
— William James

“Be confident. …

“Be confident. BE compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out.”
— Lauren Jauregui

“Wanting to be …

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
— Kurt Cobain

“You are the o…

“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

“What would be…

“What would be the point of living if we didn’t let life change us.”
— Downton Abbey

“Extreme situa…

“Extreme situations don’t change us, they reveal us. But the worst is when we can’t even see what we’ve allowed ourselves to become – or rather, we can’t see what parts of ourselves we’ve allowed to grow out of control. It can happen to anyone.”
— Jay-Z

“I think it’s …

“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
— Oscar Wilde

“We are alive a…

“We are alive and still hoping something greater will happen.”
— Rakishi

“Realize you c…

“Realize you can be happy this moment for no reason. Otherwise, you eternally depend on conditions for happiness. Unconscious of this moment, you remain a victim of circumstances.”
— Arthur D. Saftlass

“We cross our …

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

“To be somebod…

“To be somebody, you must last.”
— Ruth Gordon

“Always go wit…

“Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.”
— Deepak Chopra

“Look, I’m goi…

“Look, I’m going to find a way to be happy, and I’d really love to be happy with you, but if I can’t be happy with you, then I’ll find a way to be happy without you.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“The good figh…

“The good fight is the one we fight because our heart asks it of us.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

“There is a ma…

“There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness.”
— Neil Gaiman

“Of all the wo…

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
— Kurt Vonnegut

“Most human bei…

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
— Aldous Huxley

“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.”
— Georgia O’Keeffe

“Action springs…

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Make the best …

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
— Epictetus

“The world is e…

“The world is exactly like you think it is, and that’s why.”
— John A. Woods

“He who walks i…

“He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints.”
— Joan Brannon

“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
— Charles Bukowski

“Say not, ‘I ha…

“Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’”
— Khalil Gibran

“If you keep on…

“If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got.”
— W. L. Bateman

“If you keep on…

“If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got.”
— W. L. Bateman

“If we cannot l…

“If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.”
— Immanuel Hermann Fichte

“Ever tried. Ev…

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
— Samuel Beckett

Doveglion by E. E. Cummings

he isn’t looking at anything
he isn’t looking for something
he isn’t looking
he is seeing

what

not something outside himself
not anything inside himself
but himself

himself how

not as some anyone
not as any someone

only as a noone(who is everyone)

“The secret of …

“The secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”
— Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

“Few are those …

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
— Albert Einstein

“Courage is the…

“Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.”
— Joseph Addison

“This is the re…

“This is the reason we cannot complain of life; it keeps no one against his will.”
— Seneca

“I know that th…

“I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.”
— Tom Lehrer