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#1

“We are both wounded in our own way and, like a pair of tectonic plates shifting over time, our wounds will gradually grate against one anotherâ€™s, causing damage at a glacial pace. Neither of us will notice until itâ€™s too late.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

tags: breakup, love, relationships

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#2

“Don't be ridiculous,' said Maya, 'You can't fail at a relationship. That's like getting off of a roller coaster and saying you failed because the ride is over. Things end. That doesn't mean the experience wasn't worth it.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

tags: ending, heartbreak, relationships

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#3

“I wondered how much of the feeling of love is chemicals and cravings and dependency, and how much of the act of love is habit.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

tags: love, relationships

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#4

“Society often accepts difference in children, but itâ€™s not â€˜acceptanceâ€™ so much as it is a confidence that those differences will fade.”
― ChloÃ© Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

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#5

“why are we then determined to change the child, rather than the world around them? Why do we validate the wrong just because itâ€™s normalised, and ostracise the right just because itâ€™s not?”
― ChloÃ© Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

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#6

“Functioning labels and Aspergerâ€™s syndrome both need to be erased entirely from diagnostic criteria and our vocabulary if we want any chance of a more equal future. They only serve to segregate, label and ultimately harm us.”
― ChloÃ© Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

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#7

“But walking a path alone for a while longer is better than sharing it with someone whoâ€™s going to make that path more difficult.”
― ChloÃ© Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

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#8

“Find love in things simply to be in love with them.”
― ChloÃ© Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

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#9

“It is time to liberate â€˜companionshipâ€™ from the shackles of coupledom, and make it as widely and as easily available as sexual liberators wanted sex to be.”
― The School of Life, How to Find Love

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#10

“One of the key things that can go wrong in our search for love is that we get fixated on a particular person who turns out not to be a promising or realistic option.”
― The School of Life, How to Find Love

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#11

“Whatever goes on inside that box with other people, I don't understand it. I always feel like everyone else has been sent pages and pages of instructions, tips and tricks to life and how to move smoothly. I'm always a few steps behind. I can read a book in a day, memorize anything, feel so strongly. But the doublespeak and the secret looks. I'm not sure I'll ever decipher them.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

tags: imagination, thoughts, understanding

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#12

“While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

tags: differences, light, love, unity

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#13

“Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

tags: inspirational

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#14

“Someone being autistic is the same as being left-handed or color blind.
It means we all experience the world differently.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

tags: beauty, imagination, wonder

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#15

“It's so confusing. To be too much for some people and not enough for everyone else.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

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#16

“When grown-ups don't like what we have to say, they blame our autism and say we don't know our own minds.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

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#17

“It's better to be open about who you really are, what you're really like, and be disliked by a few than it is to hide who you are and be tolerated by many.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

tags: autism, autism-acceptance, masking, true-to-yourself

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#18

“[...] none of it is built for people like us."
"Addie, nowhere is built for people like us," Keedie murmurs.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

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#19

“It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade

tags: agree, altair, ²¹±ô³Ù²¹Ã¯°ù, assassin-s-creed, believe, disagree, education, know, knowledge, mind, no-matter, oliver-bowden, people, punih, quote, right, smart, thinking, true, wisdom

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#20

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
― Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

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#21

“Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.”
― Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

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#22

“We are not victims of our situation. We are the architects of it.”
― Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

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#23

“Children are better off having a parent who works into the night in a job they love than a parent who works shorter hours but comes home unhappy.”
― Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

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#24

“When the people have to manage dangers from inside the organization, the organization itself becomes less able to face the dangers from outside.”
― Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

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#25

“You can have too much choice in this world. And when everyone has too much choice, it is also much harder to get chosen. And we all want to be chosen.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

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#26

“People without a sense of humor will never forgive you for being funny.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

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#27

“You always know when itâ€™s your first time, donâ€™t you? But you rarely know when itâ€™s your final time.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

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#28

“Itâ€™s great to be the fastest runner, but not when youâ€™re running in the wrong direction.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

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#29

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: philosophy, wisdom

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#30

“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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