This page is simply filled with words that inspire me. This is more for me than you. These words, however, may inspire you, too, so enjoy.

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A Proverb:

It’s much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship.

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From Henry David Thoreau’s Journal:

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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From George Orwell’s Animal Farm:

Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

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Albert Camus:

In the midst of winter, I have finally discovered that there is within me an inevitable summer.

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Jack Kerouac in On the Road:

They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirious of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’

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From a Chinese Proverb:

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

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Faron Young:

I wanna live fast, love hard, and leave a beautiful memory.

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Dorothy Parker:

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

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From me… a while back:

Sometimes, in life, we don’t know when something is too good to be true (be that a deal, a promise, or even a relationship). Perhaps because we all have had experiences that have been too good, yet have been, in fact, true nonetheless. It gives us hope.

Sometimes, in life, we refuse to believe that something that is too good really is true. So, we prod at it, we ignore it, or we second-guess it until we have, in fact, convinced ourselves that it is definitely not true. It’s a natural defense. Hell, the statement in itself is mostly a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Sometimes, in life, things that seem too good to be true turn out to be just that. This is the fuel that makes us second-guess every one of life’s moments that could have been simply, and exactly, what we were looking for.

Life, itself, is too good to be true.

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