My Favourite Quotes♡

“I think, Sebastian, therefore I am.”

~ Pris { Blade Runner }

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“If you lose your faith in me, please keep your faith in people.”

~ Rachel { The Dark Knight }

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“Do not hate humans. If you cannot live with them, then at least do them no harm, for theirs is already a hard lot.”

~ Lisa { Castlevania: Symphony of the Night }

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“People die, but real love is forever.”
~The Crow👰🏻💋🍒💣

💗Love Conquers All💗
🐦‍⬛ Karasu 🩷 Sha Yuri 🐈‍⬛
June 11th, 2017~Eternity

“But at the end of the day, love really did conquer all…”
~ Lexi { The Vampire Diaries }

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“This world is a dream, and a dream is where I meet you.” ♡

~ Atsushi Sakurai { my muse // “Kagerou (translation)” by BUCK-TICK }

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“But, I am always dreaming, even when I’m awake; it is never finished.”

~ Amalthea (The Last Unicorn)

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“We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams.”

~ Romani proverb

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“Little things used to mean so much to Shelly—I used to think they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial.”

~ Eric Draven { portrayed by Brandon Lee in The Crow }

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“There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they’re good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn’t mean you’ll be together forever. It doesn’t mean you won’t hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.”

~ Laurell K. Hamilton { Incubus Dreams }

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Ever with thee I wish to roam —
Dearest my life is thine.
Give me a cottage for my home
And a rich old cypress vine,
Removed from the world with its sin and care
And the tattling of many tongues.
Love alone shall guide us when we are there —
Love shall heal my weakened lungs;
And oh, the tranquil hours we’ll spend,
Never wishing that others may see!
Perfect ease we’ll enjoy, without thinking to lend
Ourselves to the world and its glee —
Ever peaceful and blissful we’ll be.

~ Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
{ her Valentine for her husband, Edgar Allan Poe }

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“Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It’s about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.”

~ unknown

{ shared for me by my brother Micky who thought of me and my new boyfriend at the time, Karasu (now husband), after we had our first break-up (we’re on/off) when Micky happened upon this quote on Tumblr the next day. }

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“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.”

~ I Corinthians 13:4-8

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“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” 🥀

“People have forgotten this truth,” the fox said. “But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.” 🥀

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince 🤴🏼🥀🦊

He’s my rose … 🌹

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“Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses.”

~ Proverb

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“If I like something, then my heart will not have room for any other, and I’ll always treasure it. A thousand times, a millions times, no matter how many years, this will not change.”

~ Heaven Official’s Blessing

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In an interview just prior to his death on the set of The Crow, Brandon Lee quoted a passage from Paul Bowles’ book The Sheltering Sky which he had chosen for his wedding invitations; it is now inscribed on his tombstone dedicated to Brandon and his fiancée Eliza Hutton:

“Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless…”

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In November 2019, The Crow (1994) director Alex Proyas said in an interview on a podcast of a reboot:

“I personally tried to squash it every time I hear of one, not that I believe I’ve been able to. I think extenuating circumstances have stopped it from being made because if Hollywood wants to make something that they don’t listen to schmucks like me who bring noble and moralistic issues. My point is that Brandon Lee made that movie what it is. He made that movie, he made that character. That character was not taken from a comic book, that was Brandon. And Brandon Lee died making that movie, he paid the worst price anyone could ever pay making a movie and it’s his legacy. The guy would have been a huge star after that movie. He wasn’t able to ever do that. That’s his final testimony to his talent and that’s why I finished the movie. I finished it for Brandon. After being devastated about what happened we shut down the production and I went back to Australia. Months later I went back and watched the movie and his family all the other actors, and everyone involved, said ‘You’ve got to finish this movie because Brandon is so great in it’ and he was. I was able to watch it and see how great he was and I thought then the movie deserves to be completed because it’s his legacy. So that’s what the movie is, it’s not just a movie that can be remade. It’s one man’s legacy. And it should be treated with that level of respect.”

And Alex Proyas about the Bill Skarsgard The Crow reboot on his Facebook page.

“I’m really not happy to see negativity about other filmmakers’ work. And I’m sure the cast and crew really had good intentions, as we all have in any movie. So it hurts to say anything more about this topic, but I think the response from the fans says it all. ‘The Crow’ isn’t just a movie. Brandon Lee died doing it, and it ended as a testament to his brilliance and his tragic loss. It’s his legacy. And that’s how it should stay.”

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“To me … there’s only one thing I cannot give up. It’s absolutely unique, and something that’s extremely important; every fragment of my thoughts is made of it. It’s an intense and strong feeling that cannot be expressed by words. I have confidence, this feeling can’t be yielded, I won’t let anyone take it away from me; it’s for this idea that I breathe and my blood flow in my veins. It’s for this idea that I continue to paint. Each time I paint and being able to get close to that idea, I grind my teeth in frustration; this is not what I meant to say. My thoughts are not at such a level as this. Crying out loud, “I can’t reach eternity!”. As a result, I suffer, get hurt and wear myself out; but no matter how lost I felt, this has never changed and I’ve also learned how to be born anew. If only I could convey one millionth of this feeling…”

~ Minami Ozaki { Legend of the Holy Beast / Zetsuai 1989 (Everlasting Love 1989) wikipedia page }

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“It doesn’t matter who I am. I’m here for you, James. See? I’m real.”

~ Maria { Silent Hill 2 }

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“In this world there’s real and make believe, this seems real to me.”

~ 3 Doors Down { “Let Me Go” }

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“And I know that I am dead
But the pain here that I feel
Try and tell me it’s not real
And it seems that I still have a tear to shed.”

~ Emily { portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter in Corpse Bride }

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“Somehow I know that we can’t wake again from this dream
It’s not real, but it’s ours.”

~ Amy Lee { my role model ♡ // “Before The Dawn” by Evanescence }

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“If you need to leave the world you live in
Lay your head down and stay a while
Though you may not remember dreaming
Something waits for you to breathe again…”

~ Amy Lee { my role model ♡ // “Imaginary (Origin version)” by Evanescence }

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“In the world’s eye
We were Laurel and Hardy
In our minds
We were Heathcliff and Cathy
In a moment of wisdom
We were a wizard and a witch
In a moment of freedom
We were Don Quixote and Sancho
In reality
We were just a boy and a girl
Who never looked back.”

~ Yoko Ono { “You’re The One” }

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“I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.”

~ Julia Roberts

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“I am enough.”

~ Lapis / Android 17 { DragonBall Super } – the original inspiration for our Steven Gayle in MQ the webcomic since 2003

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“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep…”

~ Robert Frost { Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening }

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“When people see good, they expect good, and I don’t want to live up to their expectation.”

~ Damon Salvatore { portrayed by Ian Somerhalder in The Vampire Diaries }

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“Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they’re going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.”

~ Sebastian Stan

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“Heard melodies are sweet; but those unheard are sweeter.” ♡

~ unknown { in reference to my fictional stepdaughter Amy Sorel on the official Soul Calibur website in Japanese years ago }

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“If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi.”

~Andrew Juniper

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“Wabi-sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”

~ Richard Powell

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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

~ unknown; often contributed to John Lennon

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“If you don’t have any inspiration left, you’re as good as dead.”

~ Yuri Plisetsky { Yuri on Ice }

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“Build on this. Feel your anger and your pain and your sorrow and your joy, and put it all into your dance. Live the music, feel it. Every note, every sound, every harmony needs to have your body vibrating from the end of your hair to the tips of your toes. And then, and only then, will you take her down.”

~ Odette { Leap }

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“You get the part because you have something she can only dream of – passion!”

~ Odette on Felicie’s love for ballet { Leap }

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“Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. For if you love me I will always be in your heart; if you hate me I will always be in your mind.”

~ William Shakespeare

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“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.”

~ Carl Jung

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“If you lock yourself inside your own world shielded from the real world, some day harsh reality will come in from outside.”

~ Hajime Isayama { creator of Attack on Titan }

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“When something seems too good to be true, that’s usually because it’s actually evil and wants to break your heart.”

~ Shizuru Kuwabara { Yu Yu Hakusho }

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“You were wrong on two counts. Even the hardest substance can be broken, when crashed into itself. And the ability to feel pain is not a weakness. It’s a strength. Pain tells a creature it’s vulnerabilities.”

~ Kurama { Yu Yu Hakusho }

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“As far as beauty in a woman is concerned, the thing that can kill it is being too impeccable, too well nurtured, too taken care of, so you can feel the vanity behind it. The kind of beauty where you’re afraid to smile too much is a bore. I am sincerely not worried about getting old. Practically all the women I know who were pretty young women became beautiful older women. I think what age and living and experience do to one’s face is beautiful. I think a face without flaws, without character, means nothing. I plan on my face having a lot of character in ten years.”

~ Elizabeth Taylor

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“Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but the woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”

~ Proverbs 31:30

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“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”

~ Vincent Van Gogh

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“Art is like breathing for me. If I don’t do it, I start to choke.”

~ Yoko Ono

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“The fear of the blood tends to create fear for the flesh.”

~ Silent Hill

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“You’ve got this dark pit inside you. I know. Believe me, I know. But that doesn’t mean you have to fall into it. You don’t have to be a monster. … It doesn’t matter what you are. It only matters what you do. It’s your choice.”

~ Sam Winchester { portrayed by Jared Padalecki in Supernatural }

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“No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”

~ 1 Corinthians 10:13 { The Bible – New King James Version }

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The Sheep and the Goats

31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.
32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?
38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?
39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,
43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

~ Matthew 25: 31–46 { The Bible – New International Version }

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“Lord Jesus Christ, son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.”

~ The Jesus Prayer

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“God made us: invented us as man invents an engine. a car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended – civilizations are built up – excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and run a few yards, and then it breaks down. They are trying to run it on the wrong juice. That is what Satan has done to us humans.”

~ C.S. Lewis

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“Once you fall that hard and have been kicked and kicked, you learn to protect yourself. I’m a fighter, but I learned that I’m not in charge. Whatever God wants to happen is what’s going to happen, it really is ‘let go and let God’.”

~ Mariah Carey

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“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”

~ Carrie Fisher

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“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and G** damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”

~ Elizabeth Taylor

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“Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?”

~ Marilyn Monroe

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“Ambition is a talent in its own right. I had the gift of music, but it was ambition that enabled me to translate that into my career.”

~ Mariah Carey

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見ぬが花。♡
Minu ga hana.

Literally: Not seeing is a flower.
Meaning: Reality can’t compete with imagination.

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“If none can know what lies ahead, then losing one’s way is just human nature.”

~ Yoshimitsu-sensei 👹 { Soul Calibur IV }

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“Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do, long after the mood you said it in has left you.”

~ unknown

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“God helps those who help themselves.”

~ Russian proverb

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“You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help.”

~ Bruce Lee

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“It is like a finger pointing away to the moon – don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”

~ Bruce Lee

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“If you can run slowly, you can run quickly. “

~ Sun Tzu

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“I want you to wait for me, Beth. Don’t give up, Honey. ‘Cause I’m alive out there … and I’m only alive because of our love … and someday … oh, Beth … someday, I’m gonna come back home to you.”

~ Al Calavicci { portrayed by Dean Stockwell from “M.I.A.” in Quantum Leap }

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嘆けとて月やは物を思はする
かこち顔なるわが涙かな

nageke to te tsuki ya wa mono wo omowasuru
kakochi-gao naru waga namida ka na

How could the moon make me fall into thought by saying “Lament!”? Although it is attributed to me being in love, I attribute my tears falling down to the moon.

~ Saigyō Hōshi 西行法師 { Senzai Wakashū 15:926 }

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“Grow like a tree, stay true to your roots, stay firmly planted and you can grow so high your treetops touch the sky, don’t transplant yourself every time there’s a trendy new soil, it may be toxic to your own roots.”

~ My best friend, Matthew Villani

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“I know music in a way you will never know. When I look around, I see music everywhere. There is music in the stars, the way they sparkle. I feel them. There’s music in the light as they dance on the water at night. And how the leaves chase each other like children at play. When I feel the wind on my face, the wind is my music.”

~ Diana Quinna Perry { portrayed by Rhondee Beriault from “Private Dancer” in Quantum Leap }

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“Whatever you do. You ought to be the best at it, highly skilled. It’s about confidence, not arrogance. You have to know that you’re the best whether anybody else tells you or not. And that you’ll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that…”

~ Bob Dylan

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“I always admired true artists who were dedicated, so I learned from them. Popular culture usually comes to an end very quickly. It gets thrown into the grave. I wanted to do something that stood alongside Rembrandt’s paintings…”

~ Bob Dylan

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“Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.”

~ Bob Dylan

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“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”

~ Yukio Mishima

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“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. When we give of ourselves, nothing is truly lost. When one candle lights another, it’s light is not diminished. In fact, the light given off together is greater than the light of one.”

~ unknown

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“It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”

~ Anne Frank { The Diary of a Young Girl }

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“There is no shame in needing support. I hope this campaign will help you be vocal about your own struggles, or vocal in your support of those who might need a helping hand. Most of all, when life seems to want to beat you down, I hope you Always Keep Fighting.”

~ Jared Padalecki { To Write Love On Her Arms; https://represent.com/jared }

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“People who are dealing with depression, addiction, or suicidal thoughts, or mental illness … they’re strong. You’re strong because you’ve been in this fight and you wake up thinking you’re going to beat it again today.”

~ Jared Padalecki

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“Every point in your life, even if it’s tough, is something to cherish and to be happy about.”

~ Jared Padalecki

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“When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that’s what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they’re not alone.”

~ Amy Lee { my role model ♡ }

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“Music is therapy for me. It’s my outlet for every negative thing I’ve ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.”

~ Amy Lee ( my role model ♡ )

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“We’ve all fallen, but at the same time we’re not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.”

~ Amy Lee ( my role model ♡ )

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“Hope is a very dangerous thing to lose.”

~ Sayid Jarrah { portrayed by Naveen Andrews in Lost }

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“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

~ Bruce Lee

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“We can’t help everyone … but everyone can help someone.”

~ Jackie Chan { my childhood hero ♡ }

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“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”

~ Swedish proverb

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“I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.”

~ Voltaire

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“I want God, not my idea of God.”

~ C.S. Lewis

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“Every last person I’ve seen was the same way. Whether it was booze, women or even God. Family, the king, dreams, children, power… They couldn’t keep going unless they were drunk on something. They were all slaves to something.”

~ The Weird Uncle™️, Kenny Ackerman { Attack on Titan}

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“There’s no one to my knowledge that isn’t surprised by their longevity, including myself. But it’s very dangerous to plan (far ahead), because you are just dealing with your vanity. Tomorrow is hard enough. It’s God who gives you the freedom, and the days you should be most concerned with are today and tomorrow.”

~ Bob Dylan

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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy-tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy-tales.”

~ Albert Einstein

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“If I’m honest, I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”

~ Audrey Hepburn

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“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.”

~ Marilyn Monroe

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“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

~ Marilyn Monroe

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“It’s better to be your genuine self, and have fewer of the right kinds of people in your life, than it is to surround yourself with those who only accept you as long as you conform to their idea of who you should be.”

~ Zero Dean

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“I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don’t need someone else’s approval.”

~ Amy Lee { my role model ♡ }

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“All life lives on, if we’ve ever loved it…”

~ Amy Lee { my role model ♡ // “Secret Door” by Evanescence }

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“Keep one dream that won’t come true.”

~ Ric Ocasek { “Maybe Baby” by The Cars }

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“Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human.”

~ Neil Gaiman { Stardust }

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“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”

~ Neil Gaiman { Stardust }

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The rain set early in to-night,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And did its worst to vex the lake:
I listened with heart fit to break.
When glided in Porphyria; straight
She shut the cold out and the storm,
And kneeled and made the cheerless grate
Blaze up, and all the cottage warm;
Which done, she rose, and from her form
Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl,
And laid her soiled gloves by, untied
Her hat and let the damp hair fall,
And, last, she sat down by my side
And called me. When no voice replied,
She put my arm about her waist,
And made her smooth white shoulder bare,
And all her yellow hair displaced,
And, stooping, made my cheek lie there,
And spread, o’er all, her yellow hair,
Murmuring how she loved me — she
Too weak, for all her heart’s endeavour,
To set its struggling passion free
From pride, and vainer ties dissever,
And give herself to me for ever.
But passion sometimes would prevail,
Nor could to-night’s gay feast restrain
A sudden thought of one so pale
For love of her, and all in vain:
So, she was come through wind and rain.
Be sure I looked up at her eyes
Happy and proud; at last I knew
Porphyria worshipped me; surprise
Made my heart swell, and still it grew
While I debated what to do.
That moment she was mine, mine, fair,
Perfectly pure and good: I found
A thing to do, and all her hair
In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around,
And strangled her. No pain felt she;
I am quite sure she felt no pain.
As a shut bud that holds a bee,
I warily oped her lids: again
Laughed the blue eyes without a stain.
And I untightened next the tress
About her neck; her cheek once more
Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss:
I propped her head up as before,
Only, this time my shoulder bore
Her head, which droops upon it still:
The smiling rosy little head,
So glad it has its utmost will,
That all it scorned at once is fled,
And I, its love, am gained instead!
Porphyria’s love: she guessed not how
Her darling one wish would be heard.
And thus we sit together now,
And all night long we have not stirred,
And yet God has not said a word!

~ Robert Browning { Porphyria’s Lover }