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#1

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: death

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#2

“who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty people?
( and if you and I should

get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people

than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited,where

always
it's
Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves”
― e.e. cummings, Collected Poems

tags: astronomy, balloon, flowers, hot-air-balloon, luna, lunar, moonlight, spring

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#3

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

tags: autumn

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#4

“Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
they're falling in love with the ground.”
― Andrea Gibson

tags: autumn, love

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#5

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

[The Autumnal]”
― John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

tags: autumn, beauty, dreamy, literal, nature

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#6

“Emma laughed darkly. "It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making engine."
"I'm so glad," I said. "Mine is a worst-case-scenario generator."
"We need each other, then."
"Yes. But we already knew that, I think.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

tags: comparison, hope, love, pair

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#7

“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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#8

“Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.”
― Naya Rivera

tags: beautiful, beauty-is-not-skin-deep, butterflies, inner-beauty, inspirational-quote, self-judgement, self-perception, wisdom-quotes

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#9

“There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Kiss

tags: fashion, self-perception

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#10

“But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images.”
― Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes

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#11

“People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.”
― Sa'di

tags: beauty, self-consciousness, self-perception

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#12

“What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.”
― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

tags: mirrors, self-deception, self-perception

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#13

“Elephants don’t belong in rooms, and damaging thoughts don’t belong in our hearts.

I am going to kick the elephant out of the room, slay this shit, and embrace the most important truth I’ve ever learned.

I am not what I do or what I look like. I am just who I am.”
― Shelley Brown-Weird Girl Adventures from A to Z

tags: authenticity, confidence, empowerment, female-empowerment, motivation, self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-perception, self-worth, witty

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#14

“I can’t bear to wear flats, and it’s not a height thing. The rounded toe of the ballet slipper-style shoes do not appeal to me. Let’s face it, none of us over thirty, forty, fifty and on, are ballerinas. No, girls, Pilates is not ballet.

I’ve been told I am built like a ballerina, but I’ve also been told I dance like a stripper. Did you ever ask someone how they thought you dance? You may be in shock, or maybe they will be.”
― Shelley Brown-Weird Girl Adventures from A to Z

tags: authenticity, confidence, empowerment, female-empowerment, motivation, self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-perception, self-worth, witty

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#15

“I come from a worried people. These people worry and are overly cautious. The worried people are very suggestive and read the side effects on every medication to make sure they experience all of them, even the side effects experienced by the placebo people. If it only happens in males, my female people will figure out a way to have that side effect, too. My people worry out of love, though.”
― Shelley Brown-Weird Girl Adventures from A to Z

tags: hilarious, inner-self, loving-yourself, self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-perception, self-reward, self-worth, sense-of-worth, witty

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#16

“Low self-esteem is the belief that we are not good or worthy enough. It’s a self-perception. It doesn’t matter how successful or confident you are. You can be wealthy, beautiful, or well-liked by others and still don’t feel good about yourself. The way other people perceive you doesn’t affect your self-esteem. It’s how you perceive yourself that matters.”
― Yong Kang Chan, Empty Your Cup: Why We Have Low Self-Esteem and How Mindfulness Can Help

tags: low-self-esteem, low-self-worth, self-compassion, self-esteem, self-love, self-perception, self-worth

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#17

“We're all braver and stronger than we give ourselves credit for.”
― Adam Gnade, The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad

tags: depression, self-perception

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#18

“When you see yourself as creative, your world expands.”
― David Taylor-Klaus

tags: create, creative, expansion, self, self-perception

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#19

“The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.”
― Edward De Bono

tags: acceptance-of-oneself, confidence, ego, perception, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-image, self-perception

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#20

“If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: essence, self-perception, self-understanding

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#21

“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Secret Life of Water

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#22

“Grief feels a lot like fear. We’re afraid of it taking us over. But we owe it to ourselves, to those we have lost, to let grief in. Only then can we start to remember them with a cheer in our heart, a cheer for them and all that they were.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Spies of Shilling Lane

tags: charming, cozy, grief, healing, historical-fiction, loss, ww2

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#23

“At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream.”
― E.B. White, Essays of E.B. White

tags: cozy, dreamy, winter

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#24

“Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: drain, gray, observational, people, vitality

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#25

“Some people do not really hate aging; they merely love the colour black.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: age, aging, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, black, dark, funny, gray, gray-hair, gray-hairs, grey, grey-hair, grey-hairs, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, joke, jokes, old-age, satire, white, white-hair, white-hairs, wrinkle, wrinkles

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#26

“You may be amazed that you are still unique and beautiful as your natural self. Only you can decide if this style is for you.”
― Monica Millner, Natural & Free: Journey to Natural Beauty

tags: african-american-women, afro-hair, black-women, natural-hair

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#27

“Breezy days
deserve the union
of two old friends.”
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

tags: breeze, breezy, days, friends, friendship, indian-authors, old-friends, poetry, poetry-quotes, union

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#28

“I need a name for this ink ... A name for the feeling you get when you see someone again. After many years. Someone lost to you. Or so you thought. And you remember them a certain way. In your mind, they never age. But then suddenly, there they are. Older. Changed by time. Different, but exactly the same.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

tags: change, cinderella, memories, names, old-friends, stepsister, stepsisters, time, ugly-stepsisters

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#29

“The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

tags: adventures, teatime

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