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enchanted to meet you
Hi, I'm Melissa.Laughter is the best medicine.
"If you're lucky enough to be different from everyone else, don't ever change to be the same."
For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want.
St. Paul, Galatians 5:171
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.
Benjamin Franklin
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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My heart, so precious, I won’t trade for a hundred thousand souls, yet your one smile takes it for free.
Rumi
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
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If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.
Lemony Snicket
I think that’s what happens every time we reach out to another human being. We fill a hidden reservoir - what I’d call build an invisible bridge - of love. When we do that, we are doing the greatest human good possible.
Six Questions of Socrates
Nothing can wear you out like caring about people.
S.E. Hinton
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Don’t hang out with people who don’t love you. Don’t try to impress people who aren’t worth it. Don’t try to win people over who aren’t worth it. Focus on yourself, and focus on the people who are really awesome and who love you. Don’t hang out with people who make you feel like shit. Don’t spend your energy on them. There is so much pressure to be part of the right thing: well, you should create the right thing. If you don’t see it, create it. If you don’t see what you want, be the change you want to see.
Beth Ditto
Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne
The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
Ted Hughes
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If you’re an introvert, you also know that the bias against quiet can cause deep psychic pain. As a child you might have overheard your parents apologize for your shyness. Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”— that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and some humans are just the same.
Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.
Jodi Picoult, Second Glance
