Nineteen

“People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”

— Salma Hayek

"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't"

Chuck Palahniuk

"Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read."
--David Sedaris

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before—more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle."

--Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

"What we need is to love without getting tired."
-Mother Theresa

"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that."
-Mark Twain

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
-Audrey Hepburn

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”

— Audrey Hepburn

"'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary"
-Louisa May Alcott

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
--Erich Fromm

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used tot he unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget."

--Arundhati Roy

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Impromptu Personal Thought-

"There seems to be no human emotion more universal or more keenly felt than the dull, persistent ache of missing someone"