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#151

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
― Alan Watts

tags: civilization, culture, names, power-of-words, responsibility, wisdom

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#152

“There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: incantation, magik, power-of-words

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#153

“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: language, power-of-words

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#154

“Hope is hugging me, holding me in its arms, wiping away my tears and telling me that today and tomorrow and two days from now I will be just fine and I'm so delirious I actually dare to believe it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

tags: omg-amazing

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#155

“I only know now that the scientists are wrong.

The world is flat.

I know because I was tossed right off the edge and I've been trying to hold on for 17 years. I've been trying to climb back up for 17 years but it's nearly impossible to beat gravity when no one is willing to give you a hand.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

tags: omg-amazing

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#156

“I always wonder about raindrops.

I wonder about how they're always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end. It's like someone is emptying their pockets over the earth and doesn't seem to care where the contents fall, doesn't seem to care that the raindrops burst when they hit the ground, that they shatter when they fall to the floor, that people curse the days the drops dare to tap on their doors.

I am a raindrop.

~~My parents emptied their pockets of me and left me to evaporate on a concrete slab.~~”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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#157

“My voice softens. 'How old are you?'
'I'll be eleven next year.'
I grin. 'So you're ten years old?'
He crosses his arms. Frowns. 'I'll be twelve in two years.'
I think I already love this kid.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

tags: shatter-me, tahereh-mafi

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#158

“Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

tags: brendan

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#159

“My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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#160

“You think that because I am unwanted, because I am neglected and-and discarded-" My voice inches higher with every word, the unrestrained emotions suddenly screaming through my lungs. "You think I don't have a heart? You think I don't feel? You think that because I can inflict pain, that I should? You're just like everyone else. You think I'm a monster just like everyone else. You don't understand me at all.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

tags: dystopian-fiction, sci-fi, teen-fiction

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#161

“I'm too poor to afford the luxury of hysteria right now.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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#162

“I'm just messing with you guys. I like seeing psycho chick get all intense." He glances at me, lowers his voice. "I mean that as a compliment--because, you know"--he waves a haphazard hand in my direction--"psycho kind of works for you.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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#163

“Sometimes I wish I never had to sleep. Sometimes I think that if I stay very, very still, if I never move at all, things will change. I think if I freeze myself I can freeze the pain. Sometimes I won’t move for hours. I will not move an inch. If time stands still nothing can go wrong.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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#164

“My eyes are two professional pickpockets, stealing everything away in my mind. I lose track of the minutes we trample over.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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#165

“He's a hot bath, a short breath, five days of summer pressed into five fingers writing stories on my body.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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#166

“I tried so hard to fix what I'd ruined. I tried every single day to be what they wanted. I tried all the time to be better but I never really knew how.

I only know now that the scientist are wrong.

The world is flat.

I know because I was tossed right off the edge and I've been trying to hold on for 17 years. I've been trying to climb back up for 17 years but its nearly impossible to beat gravity when no one is willing to give you a hand.

When no one wants to risk touching you.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

tags: touching

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#167

“Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: power-of-words, psychology

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#168

“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: ecstasy, euphoria, fulfillment, life, power-of-words

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#169

“A picture can tell a thousand words,
but a few words can change it’s story.”
― Sebastyne Young

tags: picture, power-of-words, words

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#170

“We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: communicate, communication, control, convey, dialogue, doors, exchange, ideas, ignorance, intellect, interpret, interpretation, language, meaning, misinterpretated, misinterpretation, misunderstand, misunderstanding, peace, power, power-of-words, reading, right-word, sentence, speaking, suzy-kassem, talking, thinking, thought, tones, translation, underestimate, understand, understanding, war, wars, word, words, writing

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#171

“All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.”
― Vera Nazarian, Dreams Of The Compass Rose

tags: change, change-the-world, fantasy, fiction, future, imagination, literature, narrative, narrator, power, power-of-words, reality, responsibility, responsible, shaping, stories, story, story-telling, storyteller, storytellers, storytelling, true, truth, truths, voice, voice-of-wisdom, wisdom, world

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#172

“You only have as much time as you think you do. Start telling yourself you have enough time.”
― Leticia Rae

tags: enough-time, power-of-mind, power-of-words, the-art-of-allowing, the-law-of-attraction, time

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#173

“I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a paper body. You will meet a girl with a softer voice and stronger arms and she will not have violent secrets or an affection for red wine or eyes that never stay dry. You will fall into her bed and I’ll go back to spending Friday nights with boys who never learn my last name. ”
― Clementine von Radics

tags: affection, child, girl, playing, secret, strong, violent, wonder

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#174

“Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Essential Alan Watts

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#175

“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”
― Ramana Maharshi

tags: awakening, awareness, enlightenment, giving, inspirational, know-thyself, self-realization, service, spiritual, wisdom-quotes

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#176

“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”
― Cynthia Occelli

tags: awakening, enlightenment, growth

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#177

“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

tags: advaita, advaita-vedanta, alone, aloneness, awakening, awareness, enlightenment, eternal, eternal-life, eternal-truths, everyone, everyone-belongs, global-oneness, insights, inspirational, interconnectedness, life, life-lessons, loneliness, motivational, non-duality, nonduality, oneness, spiritual-growth, spiritual-quotes, spirituality, unity, vedanta, wisdom, wisdom-quotes

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#178

“it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”
― Rupi Kaur

tags: awakening, awareness, grounded, life, spiritual, wholeness

264 likes

#179

“She remembered who she was
and the game changed.”
― Lalah Delia

tags: awakening, divine-mother, divine-strength, do-the-work, doing-the-work, emerging, encouragement, god-is-with-you, god-is-working-in-your-life, growth, inner-strength, inspirational, journey, journey-of-life, lalah-delia, life-path, life-philosophy, life-purpose, love, meditation, minimalism, motivational, philosophy, purposeful-living, rebirth, reemerging, sacred-feminine, self-actualization, self-confidence, self-improvement, self-love, self-mastery, self-realization, spiritual, spirituality, trust-the-journey, trust-the-process

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#180

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exuper

tags: awakening, living, unknown

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