And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over with summer.
Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby)

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You really love her don’t you,” she said.
“With all my heart.”
She looked as sad as I’d ever seen her.
“What’s your heart telling you to do?”
“I don’t know.”
“Maybe”, she said gently,”You’re trying to hard to hear it.
— Nicholas Sparks
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
— Rumi (via honeydirt)
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We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can’t have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we’re so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they’re not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. … Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it’ll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you’re living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.
— Nick Hornby “A Long Way Down”
I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I’m seeing we don’t live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It’s an infinite playlist.
— Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (via noteofchanges)
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As painful as it may be to face our deepest fears, we do reach the point where it’s more painful not to face them.

Ezra Bayda

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You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
— A. A. Milne  (via giovannafalcone1)
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You wake up in the morning and swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don’t scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it’s not.
— John Green (via repressions)
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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to invent something better.
Chuck Palahniuk (via misswallflower)
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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