I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
I get by with a little help from my friends.
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.
That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
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