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    "When you’re happy you enjoy the music. But when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics."

    — Frank Ocean

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    "Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you."

    — Ali ibn abi Talib (via inanis-et-vacua)

    (Source: onlinecounsellingcollege)

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    "It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you’d be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often than not, it’s lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul."

    — Sherrilyn Kenyon (via kari-shma)

    • 5 months ago
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    "A man moves through time. It means nothing except that,
    like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive."

    — Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (via tabularasae)

    (Source: leopoldgursky)

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    "Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be."

    — Dorothy Parker (via @LawrenceBland)

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    "Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out."

    — Michael Burke (via kari-shma)

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    "The brave may not live forever- but the cautious do not live at all."

    — Richard Branson  (via @common)

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