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That is why it is so important to let certain things go.
To release them. To cut loose.
People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards;
sometimes we win and sometimes we lose.
Don’t expect to get anything back,
don’t expect recognition for your efforts,
don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood.
Complete the circle.
Not out of pride, inability or arrogance,
but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life.
Close the door,
change the record,
clean the house,
get rid of the dust.
Stop being who you were and become who you are.

Paulo Coehlo

(via danimkay)

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I can’t tell you exactly what I’m looking for, but I’ll know when it happens. I want to be breathless and weak, crumpled by the entrance of another person inside my soul. I want to be violated by insight.

Aimee Bender

I’m reading Neruda quotes at work right now and it’s making me extremely nostalgic yet excited for this coming weekend. I plan to go home tonight, lock myself in my studio with my records, a bit of wine, and paint/ collect inspiration until the sun rises to then meet a new day with yoga on the beach. I haven’t had a moment to myself to just b r e athe in what seems forever. I’m feeling melancholy at the moment, which means I’m inspired. One portion of me feels like star gazing while crying my heart out while the other feels like dancing in circles with arms up and eyes wide shut. I might just do it all.. thats the beauty of life, you do what you want with it.

“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land” 
― Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems

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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Judith Butler
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No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.

Vladimir Nabokov
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How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn’t they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?

Don DeLillo

(via neverendingpoetry)

Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules for Living.

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

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if you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it.
if you don’t ask, the answer is always no.
if you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.

 Nora Roberts
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I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Anaïs Nin
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you will always be fond of me. i represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

oscar wilde