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#1

“There is a charm to letters and cards that emails and smses can窶冲 ever replicate, you cannot inhale them, drawing the fragrance of the place they have been mailed from, the feel of paper in your hand bearing the weight of the words contained within. You cannot rub your fingers over the paper and visualise the sender, seated at a table, writing, perhaps with a smile on their lips or a frown splitting the brow. You can窶冲 see the pressure of the pen on the reverse of the page and imagine the mood the person might have been in when he or she was writing it. Smiley face icons cannot hope to replace words thought out carefully in order to put a smile on the other person窶冱 face, the pressure of the pen, the sharpness or the laxity of the handwriting telling stories about the frame of mind of the writer, the smudges on the sheets of paper telling their own stories, blotches where tears might have fallen, hastily scratched out words where another would have been more appropriate, stories that the writer of the letter might not have intended to communicate. I have letters wrapped up in a soft muslin cloth, letters that are unsigned, tied up with a ribbon which I had once used to hold my soft, brown hair in place, and which had been gently untied by the writer of those letters. Occasionally, I unwrap them and breathe them in, knowing that the molecules from the hand that wrote them might still be scattered on the surface of the paper, a hand that is long dead.”
― Kiran Manral, The Face at the Window

tags: cards, letter-writing, letters, memories, nostalgia, post-cards

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#2

“I suffer from chronic nostalgia. Looking back makes me dizzy, queasy, and I yearn for it, ache for it. I want it back; maybe the homesickness will leave then.

But it窶冱 not the way I remember it. I long for a past that I didn窶冲 have, for the same experiences with different emotions, without the pain, without the ambivalence, without the fear. My heart remembers two different lives and I long for the one I can only see now, in retrospect.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn

tags: grief, life-quotes, longing, love, memories, memories-of-love, nostalgia, nostalgic-memories, philosophy-of-life, philosophy-quotes

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#3

“I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: dancing, feeling, human, human-nature, humanism, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life, life-and-living, living, living-life, passion, purity, sacredness, sanctity

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#4

“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

tags: authenticity, caring, caring-for-others, caring-too-much, compassion, damaged-goods, damaged-people, damaged-souls, dysfunctional-society, dysfunctional-world, emotional, emotional-intelligence, emotional-pain, emotionally-disabled, empath, empathic, empaths, empathy, empathy-diversity, feeling, feelings, highly-sensitive-person, hot-mess, humane, humaneness, new-age-quotes, new-world, sensitive, sensitiveness, sensitivity, society, society-humanity, society-problem, tears-crying, weakness, weakness-and-strength, weakness-quotes

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#5

“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, heartbreak, inspirational, life, love, sisters

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#6

“If you know someone who窶冱 depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn窶冲 a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they窶决e going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It窶冱 hard to be a friend to someone who窶冱 depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: advice, depression, friendship, life, self-help

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#7

“The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

tags: crying, depression, grief, hurt, pain, sadness

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#8

“When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: depression, life

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#9

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year

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#10

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#11

“May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing;
Your Heart embrace Feeling.
May Wounds become Wisdom;
Every Kindness a Prism.
May Laughter infect you;
Your Passion resurrect you.
May Goodness inspire
your Deepest Desires.
Through all that you Reach For,
May your arms Never Tire.”
― D. Simone

tags: beginnings, cheer-up, courage, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, life, new-year, success, truth, wisdom, wishes

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#12

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays

tags: astronomy, beauty, heavens, nature, night, night-sky, religion, sky, stars

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#13

“You get that one chance; and damn it, you窶况e got to take it! If there窶冱 one lesson I know I will take with me for eternity, its that there are those things that might happen only once, those chances that come walking down the street, strolling out of a cafﾃｩ; if you don窶冲 let go and take them, they really could get away! We can get so washed out with a mindset of entitlement窶� the universe will do everything for us to ensure our happiness窶� that we forget why we came here! We came here to grab, to take, to give, to have! Not to wait! Nobody came here to wait! So, what makes anyone think that destiny will keep on knocking over and over again? It could, but what if it doesn窶冲? You go and you take the chance that you get; even if it makes you look stupid, insane, or whorish! Because it just might not come back again. You could wait a lifetime to see if it will...but I don窶冲 think you should.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: bravery, chances, courage, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, take-the-first-chance, taking-chances

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#14

“Life isn窶冲 meant to be lived perfectly窶ｦbut merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman窶鏑ife, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: beauty, boldness, calling, destiny, faith, imperfection, lessons, life, life-lessons, living-life-to-the-fullest, magic, making-mistakes, perfection, positive-thinking, purpose, seizing-the-day, trusting-your-journey, uncertainty, walking-your-purpose, wildness

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#15

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: faith, inspiration, life, sorrow, wisdom, worry

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#16

“I felt despair. The word窶冱 overused and banalified now, despair, but it窶冱 a serious word, and I窶冦 using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture 窶� a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It窶冱 maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it窶冱 not these things, quite. It窶冱 more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I窶冦 small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It窶冱 wanting to jump overboard.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

tags: angst, banality, death, despair, dread, ennui

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#17

“You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.”
― Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf

tags: dread, fear

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#18

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, future, home, homelessness, leaving, memories, memory, moving-on, past, reminiscence, roots, uncertainty

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#19

“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: future, gifts, magic, past, possibilities, stories, talents

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#20

“Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world 窶� 窶廰ife is good,窶� 窶廬窶冦 safe,窶� 窶弃eople are kind,窶� 窶廬 can trust others,窶� 窶弋he future is likely to be good窶� 窶� and replaces them with feelings like 窶弋he world is dangerous,窶� 窶廬 can窶冲 win,窶� 窶廬 can窶冲 trust other people,窶� or 窶弋here窶冱 no hope.”
― Mark Goulston MD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies

tags: dangerous-world, lack-of-trust, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, sense-of-self, shattered-souls, stress, trauma, traumatic-stress, work-view

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#21

“I窶冦 here. I love you. I don窶冲 care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it窶祢 will love you through that, as well. If you don窶冲 need the medication, I will love you, too. There窶冱 nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: comfort, healing, loneliness

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#22

“I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”
― D.D. Barant, Dying Bites

tags: depression, guilt, insomnia, regret, self-loathing

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#23

“Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun shining through. Hold the cup with two hands and notice that you feel the feeling of warmth.ﾂ�窶ｨ You still feel warmth.窶ｨNow sit down and get to work. Keep your mind sharp, head on, eyes on the page and if small thoughts of worries fight their ways into your consciousness: threw them off like fires in the night and keep your eyes on the track. Nothing but the task in front of you.ﾂ�
Get off your chair in the middle of the day. Put on your shoes and take a long walk on open streets around people. Notice how they窶决e all walking, in a hurry, or slowly. Smiling, laughing, or eyes straight forward, hurried to get to wherever they窶决e going. And notice how you窶决e just one of them. Not more, not less. Find comfort in the way you窶决e just one in the crowd. Your worries: no more, no less.

Go back home. Take the long way just to not pass the liquor store. Don窶冲 buy the cigarettes. Go straight home. Take off your shoes. Wash your hands. Your face. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. It窶冱 still beating. Still fighting. Now get back to work.窶ｨWork with your mind sharp and eyes focused and if any thoughts of worries or hate or sadness creep their ways around, shake them off like a runner in the night for you own your mind, and you need to tame it. Focus. Keep it sharp on track, nothing but the task in front of you.
Work until your eyes are tired and head is heavy, and keep working even after that.

Then take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.窶ｨNotice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more.ﾂ�窶ｨYou窶决e doing just fine.窶ｨYou窶决e doing fine.

I窶冦 doing just fine.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

tags: advice, alcohol, anxiety, belief, coffee, crowd, dark, darkness, depression, doing-fine, emotional, experience, fighting, going-on, growing, heart, heartache, home, hope, letting-go, life-advice, living, love, moving-on, night, open-streets, poem, poet, poetry, progress, prose, recovery, sad, sadness, spring, sun, tired, windows, worries, worrying, writer, youth

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#24

“My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that窶冱 worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

tags: into-the-wild, life-and-living, life-story, loneliness, solitude, story, writer

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#25

“I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

tags: character, growing-up, identity, life, lit, living, minimalism, minimalist, personality, prose, quote, simplicity, songwriter, soul, the-glass-child, wanderer, worried, writer

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#26

“I rest in ease, knowing there are others out there, whispering themselves to sleep, just like me.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

tags: belonging, ease, like-me, others, poetry, rest, sleep, sleeping, to-sleep, whisper, whispering

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#27

“I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what have I seen, what did I learn? I thought about all the nights I've spent outside, all the times I laid down to cry and how I took a deep breath every morning and decided to simply go on. Because what else is there to do? Decide that this is it?
I quit, I'm done?
Oh if I could find words to justify those feelings I've carried. I could write the thickest of books with explosions of emotions from a young girl's lost heart. I could make you see, make you hear, make you feel, at least a tiny fragment
of what's out there.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

tags: adventure, books, cry, crying, emotions, explosions, feel, feelings, go-on, hear, heart, learning, life, lost, morning, nights, not-give-up, on-writing, outside, searching, see, understand, understanding, vagabond, vagabonding, who-am-i, words, writers, writing, young

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#28

“Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.
Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more.
You窶决e doing just fine.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

tags: be-ok, breathing, day, depression, ed, fighting, getting-through-the-day, growing-up, heart

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#29

“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that allows us to survive the experience fairly intact, that is, without becoming psychotic or frying out one of the brain centers. The cost of this blown circuit is emotion frozen within the body. In other words, we often unconsciously stop feeling our trauma partway into it, like a movie that is still going after the sound has been turned off. We cannot heal until we move fully through that trauma, including all the feelings of the event.”
― Susan Pease Banitt, The Trauma Tool Kit: Healing PTSD from the Inside Out

tags: anaolgy, brain, circuit-breaker, copying, electric, emotions, feelings, flooding, frozen, heal, healing, metaphor, overwhelmed, posttraumatic-stress, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, psychology, psychosis, ptsd, ptss, survival, trauma, traumatic, traumatic-experiences, traumatized, unconscious

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#30

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time

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