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"If you never ask for what you want, you never know if the answer's going to be yes or no. You've got to take the risk."

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." -T. Geisel

"Let's find some beautiful place to get lost" - Elliott Smith

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett

Something a friend said years ago when I asked her the difference between grace and mercy, and it has stuck with me ever since: "Grace is getting what you don't deserve, whereas mercy is not getting what you do deserve."

"The problem with the world is the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
-Charles Bukowski

"I'm not half what I wish I was."
-Elliott Smith

Literature – which is art married to thought, and realization untainted by reality – seems to me the end towards which all human effort would have to strive, if it were truly human and not just a welling up of our animal self. To express something is to conserve its virtue and take away its terror. Fields are greener in their description than in their actual greenness. Flowers, if described with phrases that define them in the air of the imagination, will have colours with a durability not found in cellular life.

What moves lives. What is said endures. There’s nothing in life that’s less real for having been well described. Small-minded critics point out that such-and-such poem, with its protracted cadences, in the end says merely that it’s a nice day. But to say it’s a nice day is difficult, and the nice day itself passes on. It’s up to us to conserve the nice day in a wordy, florid memory, sprinkling new flowers and new stars over the fields and skies of the empty, fleeting outer world.

- Fernando Pessoa

"Quaerendo Invenietis."

"Life will knock you down more times than you can possibly imagine. Don't knock yourself down. Don't avoid feeling embarrassed because you're afraid something's not going to go well...put yourself out there. Give yourself a chance."

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”

Charles Bukowski

A good friend will help you move. A great friend will help you move a body.

"the best lesson of life is to listen to everybody and learn from everyone, because nobody knows everything and everybody knows something." - rishika jain

You know that place between sleep and awake,
The place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always love you.
That's where I'll be waiting.

"Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the President, and the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members." Jimmy Carter

"Be yourself. Always be yourself. If people can't penetrate unimportant surface issues, they're never gonna appreciate your fundamental qualities anyways."