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[NF] Quote Thread: Express your feelings or thoughts with a quote

Sparrow

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The need for self-actualization. Even if all these needs are satisfied, we may still often (if not always) expect that a new discontent and restlessness will soon develop, unless the individual is doing what he is fitted for. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately happy. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.

-Abraham Maslow
 

Betty Blue

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"Get your freak on"
-Missy Elliot
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Within

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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
 

Sparrow

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“To move ahead you need to believe in yourself...have conviction in your beliefs and the confidence to execute those beliefs.”

Adlin Sinclair




“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

Anatole France




“Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no direction, no meaning and no justification.”

Adlin Sinclair
 

Sparrow

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“Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.”
 

Mae

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Oh, sweet sorrow, the time you borrow, will you be here when I wake up tomorrow?

- Katherine Wolf
 

Vasilisa

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Your web presence is to cyberspace what unreliable narrators are to books. This is not a bad thing. In fact, the unreliability of its inhabitants is what makes cyberspace so interesting. Second in popularity to screenshots of Jean-Luc Godard is the hoarse lament that real life is somehow more important than life online — put the two together and Tumblr will cease to mystify you. Severe introspection may cause you to have a few rough months, which will in turn cause you to leave Facebook and get really into carrier pigeons. On the other side of this crisis comes the realization that nobody really believes your profile, the pictures you are tagged in, or your blog posts constitute the entirety of your person. Some people spend more time striving towards or sabotaging sincerity online than others; a sense of purpose abides in culling them out.

Kara Vanderbigl, from In Which I Pretend That We’re The Oldest And Dearest Friends, This Recording
 

Vasilisa

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Fortune

Like in the Chinese restaurant, it is
the perfect forethought and timing with which
the slices of orange arrive
on a small plate with the bill.

So, while you are paying what is owed,
The sweet juice fills your mouth for free.

And the fortune cookie too
which offers you the pleasure of Breakage
and then the other pleasure of Discovery,

extracting and reading the little slip of paper
with a happiness that you maybe conceal,
the way the child you once were
is even now concealed inside you.

Maybe you will marry a red-haired woman.
Maybe you are going to take a long journey.
Maybe a red-haired woman will steal your car and take a long journey.
Maybe you will be buried next to your mother.

And when the people you are dining with
smile and read their fortunes out loud,
and ask you to tell them your own,
you smile and tell them a lie,

and they laugh and think you are weird and funny and sad
and you know that you
are all of those things,

but you don’t tell them the truth
because you don’t trust anyone,
and you never have:
that is your fortune.

Tony Hoagland​
 
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Ginkgo

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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public, they cease to be truth; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst catchwords. (T.S.Eliot)
 
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"I didn't know I could hate victims as fast as I hated the 9/11 victims." - Glenn Beck
 

Sparrow

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“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.”
-Carl Jung

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Frank Outlaw
 

CuriousFeeling

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"Stand up to the blow that fate has struck upon you
Make the most of all you still have coming to you..."
 

Sparrow

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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

Winston Churchill
 

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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~ Richard M. Nixon

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Vasilisa

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Thinking on connections, perceptible and hidden

We are natural believers. Truth, or the connection between cause and effect, alone interests us. We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things; all worlds are strung on it, as beads; and men, and events, and life, come to us, only because of that thread; they pass and repass, only that we may know the direction and continuity of that line.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

JocktheMotie

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"As a man he was a failure, as a monster he was superb."

[Huxley on Newton.]
 

Maya

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"I knew we shouldn't have come. Now I wished she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July." - Janet Fitch, White Oleander
 

Vasilisa

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Bright Window

I was born through a bright window.
Winged faces, docile lions, the usual
heliocentric wires. The gods loved playing
tricks then, festooned with rags,
making the wine dregs pour forever,
switching the reels so midway through
Children of Paradise, Wile E. Coyote
creams himself again. Meep, meep,

everyone in a hurry in clouds of ink
like frightened squid. I had a friend
who spun in the rain until her makeup
melted and a scar remains on my retina.
I had a friend who thought the secret
was in turning a turntable backwards.
One pill made you stronger, one pill
and you could fly. I had a friend
who crashed us through a cornfield
and all the husks could do was sing
but that was all right, it was singing
that mattered to us, had weight,
occcupied space, in motion tended
to stay in motion, at rest rest.

You start with a darkness to move through
but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

I loved those cold May mornings
stalling the wisteria,
none of the oils yet, just sketch,
the million buds of I don’t know what
waiting by the stairway where no one’s crying
yet, or laughing, not one leap yet in the dance,
it’s almost impossible to be afraid,
the furnace kicking on one last time,
the animal dragging itself a short way
from its birth.

Sometimes I sit for hours watching people
struggle with the big glass doors,
trying to fit small lids on large cups.

You can’t have it back, says the fire
affectionately. You never needed it
anyway, promises the earth.


Dean Young
 
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