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#1

“I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: danger, tension, unhappiness

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#2

“The dance between darkness and light will always remain— the stars and the moon will always need the darkness to be seen, the darkness will just not be worth having without the moon and the stars.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: dark-and-light, darkness-and-light, day-and-night, light-and-dark, perfect-balance, stars-and-moon, wisdom-quotes, yin-and-yang

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#3

“You have had a dream for so many years. Let today be the day you make a plan for it. Just think about how much more likely you are to hit your target when you finally aim at it.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: action, dreams, goals, motivational, plans, success, target

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#4

“It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, 'Remember this, George, the birds fuck the bees.' Then he told me he once banged a girl so hard her freckles came off.”
― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

tags: bees, birds, fucking, sex

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#5

“We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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#6

“On Broad Street, ravens

lurk on the Divine Lorraine Hotel as if to say
Always a corpse flower, never a bride.”
― Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

tags: always-a-bridesmaid, brute, emily-skaja, morbid, omen, poetry, ravens, sad

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#7

“It is possible that the city of London was initially named for ravens or a raven-deity. According to the Oxford Companion to the English Language, the designation comes from “Londinium,” a Romanized version of an earlier Celtic name. But the word closely resembles “Lugdunum,” the Roman name for both the city of Lyon in France and Leiden in the Netherlands. That Roman name, in turn, was derived from the Celtic “Lugdon,” which meant, literally, “hill, or town, of the god Lugh” or, alternatively, “…of ravens.” The site of Lyon was initially chosen for a town when a flock of ravens, avatars of the god, settled there. Whether or not “Lugdunum” was the origin of “London,” ravens were important for inhabitants of Britain for both practical and religious reasons.”
― Boria Sax, City of Ravens: The Extraordinary History of London, its Tower and Its Famous Ravens

tags: londinium, london, ravens

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#8

“Instead it yanks on a worm wiggling in the loosened soil. Its feathers shimmer in the morning sunlight, a malignant green on black as it tosses its beak back, devouring the worm, and then it cocks its head to stare at her, its eyes funereal and questioning.”
― Sara Stark, An Untold Want

tags: crows, ravens

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#9

“Let my sight end. Let the dark tides of Nyx ebb away beneath the white sands of null. Let our pale mother spread once more!”
― H.S. Crow, Lunora and the Monster King

tags: fantasy, incantation, lazul, magic, magick, nyx

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#10

“Life is like a little book written
With a whole lot of surprise.
Spell a word that doesn´t fit in
And that´s a spell in desguise.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Witches Of Avignon

tags: book, desguise, incantation, incantations, life-lessons, life-quotes, little-book, mistakes, power, power-of-words, spelling, spelling-bee, spelling-errors, spells, spells-of-magic, verb, witches, word, words

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#11

“By their actions, they will show you who they are.”
― Leah Remini, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

tags: faces, people, real-life, truth

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#12

“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: crying, sorrow

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#13

“Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: bereavement, crying, sorrow

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#14

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
― Rumi

tags: joy, rumi, sorrow, transformation

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#15

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: bereavement, grief, loss, mourning, sadness, sorrow, words

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#16

“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.
Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,
that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook
your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

tags: love, sad, sadness, sink, someday, sorrow

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#17

“Inventory:

"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

tags: champagne, contentment, curiosity, doubt, envy, foes, friends, hope, idleness, inventory, knowledge, laughter, life, love, sorrow, sufficienty, superfluity, unattainable, values, wisdom

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#18

“grief is a house
where the chairs
have forgotten how to hold us
the mirrors how to reflect us
the walls how to contain us

grief is a house that disappears
each time someone knocks at the door
or rings the bell
a house that blows into the air
at the slightest gust
that buries itself deep in the ground
while everyone is sleeping

grief is a house where no one can protect you
where the younger sister
will grow older than the older one
where the doors
no longer let you in
or out”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

tags: bereavement, grief, mourning, poetry, sorrow

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#19

“The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver, Thirst

tags: darkness, poetry, sorrow

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#20

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: faith, inspiration, life, sorrow, wisdom, worry

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#21

“I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

tags: leaving, love, sorrow, tessa

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#22

“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

tags: carrie, remorse, sorrow, sorry, stephen-king

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#23

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: delight, heart, sorrow, truth, weeping

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#24

“People where I live are born in cradles, then grow up in boxes, then die in coffins. From cradle to coffin--they exist in boxes. And they wish that I join them, sometimes they try, but then I bite their fingers off.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: break-free, breaking-free, freedom, freeing, inspirational-life, liberty, liberty-quotes

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#26

“For every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none.
If there be one, try and find it;
If there be none, never mind it.”
― Mother Goose Rhymes, Mother Goose Rhy Color

tags: advice, coping, mother-goose, problems, solutions, worry

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#27

“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: acceptance, alien, be-yourself, fake, front, hated, hermits, honesty, individuals, introvert, isolation, loneliness, loner, mask, naked, nude, odd, original, outcast, peculiar, populace, psychology, real, shunned, shy, society, solitude, strange, unique, vulnerable, weird

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#28

“What happens when you drop all the belief, all the opinions, and all the judgment? Wouldn't that be a form of nudity as well?”
― Neeraj Agnihotri

tags: dropping-belief, judgement, nude, nude-photography, nudity, opinions

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#29

“When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives”
― June Jordan, Passion

tags: hippies

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#30

“In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you'll ever know. They're like hippies, only they wear way more black.”
― Kate Rockland, Falling Is Like This

tags: hippies, kindness, punk

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#31

“When the hippie era ended and the hangover began, as idealism gives way to disillusionment, the hair of the marchers and street-dancers kept getting longer, and soon it began to tangle. Free love deteriorated into loveless promiscuity, our great electric Kool-Aid acid test churned out an entire generation of burnt-out old relics, and the hair, once a symbol of freedom, became symbolic of the new face of prison, a lawlessness which taken to its logical extreme would imprison all of society as our growing criminal element took to the streets.”
― Tommy Walker, Monstrous: The Autobiography of a Serial Killer but for the Grace of God

tags: 60s, hippies, hippy, sixties

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