Quotes that will make you reflect on yourself and the things around you.
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“When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.”
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Joel Osteen
Leo Quotes
“I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.”
—
Sylvester Stallone
Leo Quotes
“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”
— J.K. Rowling (Leo)
“I play the part I want you to see, not what you think I should be.”
— Leo
“To consider failure would mean that there’s another path for me, well there’s no other path but the one I’m making my way through.”
— Leo
That’s it. That’s the show.
“If there is ever, even for a fleeting moment, a tiny voice in your head, and that tiny voice is telling you, "I deserve better", listen to her. That’s your partner. That’s your real, true love. And if you betray her long enough, you will lose her.” You (S03E10)
Yves Olade, from Bloodsport; “When rome falls”
Stéphane Mallarmé, from Collected Poems and Other Verse; “The Nurse and Herodias,” (x)
Safia Elhillo, from Home Is Not a Country; “Boys”
Lorde // Emily St. John Mandel // Geoffrey Hill
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
Marian Engel, from Notebooks: "Ah, Mon Cahier, čoute"
Text ID: Art is always becoming.
“I am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“…your chest is becoming the field I want to be buried in.”
— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, from “Atlas”
Jimmy Santiago Baca, from “I Am Offering This Poem”
i’ll be with you every step of the way. i hope you know that.
i’m new to this whole romance thing. but for you, i want to give it a try!
- Emily Dickinson
Ellen Bass, from “The End”, The Human Line
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Anne Sexton, from The Collected Poems; “Flight”
e.e. cummings, from “Longing” (in Uncollected Poems), Complete Poems: 1904-1962
[Text ID: “O night, mother divine of poetry and stars!”]
Marian Engel, from Notebooks: “Ah, Mon Cahier, čoute”
Text ID: I fade into dreams.
October 6th, 1915