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Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

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“They’re both convinced that a sudden passion joined them. Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.”

— Wisława Szymborska, from “Love at First Sight,” MAP: Collected and Last Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2015)

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“Truth is so darkened nowadays, and lies so established, that unless we love the truth we will never know it.”

— Blaise Pascal (via purplebuddhaproject)

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When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

Rumi (via quotemadness)

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Gaston_the_frenchbulldog on the news!

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If you hear people from my past speak of me. Keep in mind they are speaking of a person they don’t even know anymore.

Unknown (via wordsnquotes)

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what i mean is i’m not just in love with you, i’m in love with everyone in your life who makes your heart light up & takes good care of you.

spinningsharks (via wnq-writers)

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I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things, particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things.

Fred Rogers (via wordsnquotes)

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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known- and even that is an understatement.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Letter to Zelda Fitzgerald,” 1939 (via wordsnquotes)

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I exist in two places.    here, and where you are.

Margaret Atwood, “Corpse Song.” (via wordsnquotes)

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I love you—I do—but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you’re always going to leave me. We can’t deny it. You’re always going to leave.

David Levithan, Every Day (via wordsnquotes)

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It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Mark Epstein (via wordsnquotes)

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Perfectionism is very addictive because it is very seductive. It’s so great to think ‘There’s a way I can do things where I can never be held in judgment by other people, that I can totally escape criticism.’ But it doesn’t work.

Brene Brown (via psych2go)

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Follow this cute frenchie!

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Do you think it’s possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?

Tyler Knott Gregson (via wordsnquotes)