March 2012
443 posts
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“The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be...”
– Anthony De Sa, Barnacle Love
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“You couldn’t make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the...”
– Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
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“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation....”
– Leo Buscaglia
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“Be still sad heart and cease repining, behind the clouds the sun is shining; thy...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments...”
– Oscar Levant
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“I’m not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found...”
– C. JoyBell C.
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“I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who...”
– Leonard Cohen
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“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it...”
– Patricia A. McKillip
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“If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.”
– Viktor E. Frankl
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“We’ve got a sort of brainwashing going on in our country. Do you know how they...”
– Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
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“What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a...”
– Gustave Flaubert
February 2012
443 posts
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“I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours...”
– Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
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“She simply cannot let go of love- and who can blame that? Is it not the hardest...”
– Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
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“I am going to give you a piece of advice… advice I wish I’d been...”
– Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
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“No matter where I am, I am always loving you.”
– Francesca Lia Block, Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories
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“I don’t know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want...”
– Edith Wharton
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“Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you...”
– E.L. Konigsburg
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“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
– Robert Jordan
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“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses...”
– T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
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“I can’t trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I’m not...”
– Holly Black, White Cat
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“People say they ‘find’ love, as if it were an object hidden by a...”
– Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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“And even if you hate her, can’t stand her, even if she’s ruining...”
– Mona Simpson, Anywhere But Here
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes...”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
– Anne Frank
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“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at...”
– Augustine of Hippo
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“No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The...”
– Albert Schweitzer
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“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you...”
– Alan Cohen
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“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.”
– Plato
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“She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“Dreams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they are...”
– Beth Revis, Across the Universe
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“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my...”
– Michel de Montaigne, Les Essais
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“When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple....”
– Randy Pausch
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“Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and...”
– Ludwig van Beethoven, Letters of Beethoven
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“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by...”
– J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
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“It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you’ve accepted that...”
– Rachel Hawkins, Demonglass
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“Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the...”
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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“I do not know what it is about you that closes
And opens; only something in me...”
– E.E. Cummings
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“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to...”
– Margaret Atwood, Der blinde Mörder: The Blind Assassin
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“I’d made a list in my notebook of all the things I missed about him. The way he...”
– Nicole Krauss
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“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
– William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t...”
– John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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“Sometimes I look a the Moon, and I imagine that those darker spots are caverns,...”
– Umberto Eco
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“The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads...”
– Karen Marie Moning
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“There will be other lives. There will be other lives for nervous boys with...”
– Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
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“We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
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“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when...”
– Dave Eggers