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“I take her hand under the gray-blue sky and I’m home.”

_Holding Up The Universe by Jennifer Niven_

And I know I said earlier that he was perfect but he wasn’t perfect, far from it; he could be silly and vain and remote ...

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they’d had the same experience of looking up from their books ...

[...] And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars....

all i ever do is procrastinate by yearning for hours and live on ridiculous amounts of shakespeare and lana del rey references,......

And like the moon we must go through phases of emptiness to feel full again.

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if you’re supposed catch more flies with honey, what does it mean that I catch gnats with sliced-up peaches? or that my ...

Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow

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Forgive me, for all the things I did, but mostly for the ones I did not....

Today I woke up feeling like I lost someone Like a friend I almost knew A lover I almost loved...

You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.

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If a solution fails to appear … and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while. … Like the

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

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Dieting becomes ineffective without sleep: 60% of the pounds you will lose come from lean body mass (such as muscle), and

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Doctors must be psychologically fit for the job — able to make decisions under a terrifying amount of pressure, able to

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Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

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Without noticing we’re doing it, we treat the future as intrinsically more valuable than the present. And yet the future

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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

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