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“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

tags: disappointment, life, mistakes

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#3

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― William Blake

tags: betrayal, disappointment

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#4

“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

tags: disappointment, disillusionment, emotional

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#5

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope

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#6

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts

tags: cancer, failure, inspiration, inspirational, pain, quitting

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#7

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

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#8

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: appreciation, inspiration, power-of-music

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#9

“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
― Adolf Hitler

tags: philosophy, war

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#10

“I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

tags: brain, humor, mental, responsibility

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#11

“It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

tags: depression, honor, mental, suicide, war

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#12

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: brain, mind

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#13

“It's all in the mind.”
― George Harrison

tags: beatles, mind, perception, psychology

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#14

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood

tags: change, mind, summer, winter

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#15

“Where to look if you've lost your mind?”
― Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

tags: crazy, insanity, mind, sanity

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#16

“I was going to change my clothes, but I changed my mind instead.”
― Jarod Kintz, $3.33

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#17

“Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity.”
― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

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#18

“الكبرياء أن تقول الأشياء في نصف كلمة ، ألاّ تكرّر . ألاّ تصرّ . أن لا يراك الآخر عاريًا أبدً ا . أن تحمي غموضك كما تحمي سرّك .”
― أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك

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“قرأت يومًا إن راحة القلب في العمل، وأنّ السعادة هي أن تكون مشغولًا إلى حدّ لا تنتبه أنّك تعيس.”
― أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك

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#20

“Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.”
― marquis de sade

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#21

“Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”
― Doug Wright, Quills

tags: communication, conversation, diplomacy

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#22

“My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! ”
― Marquis de Sade

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#23

“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”
― Marquis de Sade

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#24

“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”
― Marquis de Sade

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#25

“Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.”
― Marquis de Sade

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#26

“I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.”
― Marquis de Sade

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#27

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: be-yourself, self-expression

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#28

“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: be-yourself, life, self-determination

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#29

“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

tags: american-psycho, ellis

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#30

“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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