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#1

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

tags: paraphrase-of-congreve

15955 likes

#2

“The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.”
― Alfred, Lord Tennyson

370 likes

#3

“I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Verse XXVII”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

tags: bereavement, consolation, loss, love, poetry, sorrow

332 likes

#4

“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”
― Khalil Gibran

tags: love

640 likes

#5

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: emotion, heartbreak, lost-love, love, parting

3231 likes

#6

“No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: friendship, love

1147 likes

#7

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: kindness

1468 likes

#8

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: courtship, cynicism, love, lying, passion

1950 likes

#9

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: priorities

660 likes

#10

“...But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong man in his wrath.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

12 likes

#11

“You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.”
― John Keats

349 likes

#12

“We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.”
― John Keats

232 likes

#13

“You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.”
― John Keats

91 likes

#14

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
― Emily Bronte

170 likes

#15

“It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...”
― Virgil

tags: aeneid

77 likes

#16

“It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
― wendell berry

226 likes

#17

“The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.”
― Wendell Berry

tags: change, freedom

111 likes

#18

“I have always loved a window, especially an open one.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

121 likes

#19

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

tags: antoine-de-saint-exupery

46 likes

#20

“I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time...”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

45 likes

#21

“I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

63 likes

#22

“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

tags: books-love-together

984 likes

#23

“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
― Anne Sexton

656 likes

#24

“Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: pictures, soul, wish

302 likes

#25

“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”
― Annette Messager

tags: artists, sensibility

35 likes

#26

“The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

151 likes

#27

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: darkness-self-knowledge, social

2100 likes

#28

“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
― Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

tags: childhood, psychology

1654 likes

#29

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

1463 likes

#30

“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ”
― Carl G. Jung

tags: life, mistakes, psychology, truth

884 likes

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