April 2012
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“The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when...”
– Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape
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“I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was...”
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds’ End
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of...”
– John Milton, Paradise Lost
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“You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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“Long distance is hard. You have to trust that as you each change on your own,...”
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Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education
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“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and...”
– Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
– Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t...”
– Toni Morrison
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“All I’d ever wanted was to forget. But even when I thought I had, pieces...”
– Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
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“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is...”
– Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom
March 2012
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“We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies...”
– Caroline Myss
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“I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you’ve ever said to...”
– Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas
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“There is a dark resource within all of us, a reservoir of hurt and pain and...”
– John Connolly, The Killing Kind
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“I cannot live without books.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look...”
– Rita Mae Brown, Hiss of Death
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“I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In...”
– Azar Nafisi, Things I’ve Been Silent About
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“This is what I know. Don’t settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A...”
– Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
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“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
– Albert Camus
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“Sometimes I think it’s better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight...”
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love...”
– Erich Fromm
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“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
– Pearl S. Buck
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
– Virginia Woolf
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“I could tell them about the different kinds of rain, pouring rain that’s...”
– Beth Revis, Across the Universe
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“I am haunted by humans.”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I...”
– Maya Angelou
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“Besides, life isn’t meant to be safe. It’s only in our mistakes, our...”
– Glenn Beck
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“I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child...”
– Plato
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“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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“I’m always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but...”
– John Waters, Role Models
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“Knowing can be a curse on a person’s life. I’d traded in a pack of lies for a...”
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
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“I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates...”
– Milan Kundera, Immortality
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“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly...”
– Anne Lamott
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“No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries...”
– Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
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“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be...”
– William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to...”
– C.S. Lewis
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“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve...”
– Gail Caldwell, Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
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“We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us—that...”
– Emilio Estevez
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“Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be...”
– Jane Green
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“Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that...”
– Julian Gough, Juno & Juliet
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“I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective...”
– Marian Keyes, Anybody Out There?
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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein
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“I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“Whatever we lose, whether it’s a you or a me, it’s always ourselves we find in...”
– E.E. Cummings, “Maggie and Milly and Molly and May”
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“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Someday you’ll find someone special again. People who’ve been in...”
– Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
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“He didn’t like very many people any more, or very many things either. He...”
– David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
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“WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down...”
– W.B. Yeats
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“A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years...”
– Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries
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“This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a...”
– Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember 