The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.
Rainer Maria Rilke
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Virginia Woolf
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Virginia Woolf
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Pablo Neruda
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Pablo Neruda
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Pablo Neruda
I need the sea because it teaches me.
Pablo Neruda
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
James Baldwin
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life.
Simone de Beauvoir
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
Anaïs Nin
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anaïs Nin
The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anaïs Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anaïs Nin
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is always something left to love.
Gabriel García Márquez
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
Gabriel García Márquez
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Gabriel García Márquez
Your friend is your needs answered.
Khalil Gibran
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Khalil Gibran
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
Mary Oliver
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Mary Oliver
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
Mary Oliver
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
Maya Angelou
If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
Zora Neale Hurston
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
Franz Kafka
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
Franz Kafka
Paths are made by walking.
Franz Kafka
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy.
Marcel Proust
Loneliness is not solitude. Solitude requires being alone whereas loneliness shows itself most sharply in company with others.
Hannah Arendt
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.
Rumi
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Rumi
Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is inside you.
Rumi
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Rumi
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Plato
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
Not until we have lost the world do we begin to find ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Carl Jung
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
Abigail Van Buren
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov
Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre
We are our choices.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
Epicurus
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Charles Bukowski
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Charles Bukowski
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Joan Didion
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively.
Joan Didion
The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness. It is intimacy.
Richard Bach
The longing to reach out and touch another — that is what being alive means.
Albert Einstein
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe.
Albert Einstein
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Toni Morrison
If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.
Toni Morrison
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Susan Sontag
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
Perhaps the saddest thing about belonging is that it is only ever visible from the outside.
Hanif Kureishi
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
Jorge Luis Borges
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Chekhov
The smallest act in the most limited circumstances bears the seed of the same boundlessness.
Hannah Arendt
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
Mary Oliver
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours.
Khalil Gibran
Existence precedes essence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
I want everything from life.
Simone de Beauvoir
One is not born, but rather becomes.
Simone de Beauvoir
The price one pays for pursuing any calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin
Don't walk beside me either. Just be my friend.
Albert Camus
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