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“Some people show off their beauty because they want the world to see it. Others try to hide their beauty because they want the world to see something else.”
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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (via the-book-diaries)
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“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
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“I must tell you that I should really like to think there’s something wrong with me because if there isn’t, then there’s something wrong with the world itself — and that’s much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I’d rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.”
— T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
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“You cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy … because you understand them, and they do not understand you.”
— Daniel Saint
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“I don’t know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.”
— Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
— Graham Greene, Ways Of Escape
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“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
— Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: True Stories
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“Young men need to be socialized in such a way that rape is as unthinkable to them as cannibalism.”
— Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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“One of the true tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.”
— John O'Donohue, Anam Cara
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Constantly analyze yourself. Figure out why certain things upset you. Question your own motives. Understand your behavior. This creates a pathway for change. Acknowledging why you do the things you do is the first step in shifting out of toxic patterns.
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Your eyes tell poems that haven’t been put on paper.
(Aletta S.)
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“Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open?”
— Ellen Hopkins, Crank
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“But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.”
— Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
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