“Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.”
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“If you can't change your fate change your attitude.”
“You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.”
“But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.”
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Mitch Albom
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Henry Miller
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Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
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Joseph Campbell
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13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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