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Till I loved I never lived.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I have an appetite for silence.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The Soul selects her own Society.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson
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Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
Charlie MungerCharlie Munger When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
Steven PressfieldSteven Pressfield Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.
Sri ChinmoySri Chinmoy When your life begins to harm you, know that you have taken a detour from your true path.
Caroline MyssCaroline Myss To heal illness, begin by restoring balance.
Caroline MyssCaroline Myss For Faith is the beginning and the end is love, and God is the two of them brought into unity. After these comes whatever else makes up a Christian gentleman.
Ignatius of AntiochIgnatius of Antioch A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez We all start off afraid.
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