Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
AIDAN CHAMBERSLove, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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