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1,441 quotes
"Only put energy into things you have a future with."
Love
1,097 quotes
"I saw someone else wearing my most favorite shade of blue, and I acted as if I had never known this color."
Inspirational
1,024 quotes
"We romanticize the stars, but forget the dark is what made them visible."
Life
806 quotes
"Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying."
People
342 quotes
"Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear."
Man
326 quotes
"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."
Success
311 quotes
"You get what you fight for, not what you wish for."
Deep
282 quotes
"They say every storm has two purposes: Destroy what isn't solid... and reveal what is."
Healing
263 quotes
"The ability to feel pain without letting it destroy you or someone else is a superpower."
World
204 quotes
"If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world."
Live
203 quotes
"If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both."
Positive
195 quotes
"The only thing you can control is how you love someone, not what they do with the love you give them."