1195

“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

-James Baldwin-

1194

“We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.”

-Leo Buscaglia-

1193

“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all.”

-Libba Bray-

1192

to live is to be slowly born.

-antoine de saint-exupery-

1191

there came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

1190

There are two types of people—those who come into a room and say, “Well, here I am!” and those who come in and say, “Ah, there you are.

-Frederick L. Collins-

1189

“You must train your intuition , you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”

- Ingrid Bergman-

1188

“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen”

-Paulo Coelho-

1187

“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”

-Alice Walke-r

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1186

"Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate."

-Amy Tan-

1185

"Be sure to notice when you’re happy."

-Brenda Farrar-Ejemai -

1184

“Everyone of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads—at least that’s where I imagine it—there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live forever in your own little private library.”

-Haruki Murakami-

1183

“I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.”

-Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife)-

1182

“In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?”

-Siddhārtha Gautama-

1181

“You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”

-Milan Kundera-

1180

the most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

-carl gustav jung-

1179

if you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

-barbara de angelis-

1178

the image of myself which i try to create in my own mind in order that i may love myself is very different from the image which i try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

-w.h. auden-

1177

“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”

- Siddhārtha Gautama-

1176

"A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us."

-Henri J.M. Nouwen -

1175

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."

-B.B. King-

1174

Commitment is the component of love. Short term commitment is the decision that one loves someone. The long term aspect is the commitment to maintain that love.

-Robert Steinberg-

1173

“A hug can turn your day around, it’s like an emotional Heimlich. Someone puts their arms around you, and they give you a squeeze and all your fear and anxiety comes shooting out of your mouth, and you can breathe again.”

-Pushing Daisies-

1172

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”

-John Pierpont-

1171

When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to.

1170

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

- Henry David Thoreau-

1169

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. -H. G. Wells-

1168

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

-Albert Camus-

1167

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

-Eric Hoffer-

1166

most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

-dale carnegie-

1165

most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

-dale carnegie-

1164

courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

-winston churchill-

1163

everyday, do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.

-doug firebaugh-

1162

knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

-aristotle-

1161

we only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

-jean-paul sartre-

1160

follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.

-william thackeray-