"The painful intensity of my sensations, even when they’re happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they’re sad."

Fernando Pessoa

"After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom."

Arthur Golden

"Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night, that love was never wasted nor was it lost."

Alice Hoffman

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."

Elbert Hubbard

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"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Emily Dickinson

"Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders."

William Faulkner

"What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it’s no novelty, and if only to us, then it won’t be understood."

Fernando Pessoa

"Only I, only I
And none of this can I say
Because feeling is like the sky -
Seen, nothing in it to see."

Fernando Pessoa

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"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."

Charles Dickens

"Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage."

Brené Brown

"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination."

John Schaar

"At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy."

Arthur Golden