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“You make yourself strong because it’s expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.” - Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts“[T]he very lack of any dating or interest in it, the absence of any intimate relationships, or of any normal teenage behavior, did indeed make me seem just a classic loner.” - Andrew Sullivan“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson”Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice.” - Edgar Allan Poe“It’s like being inside a book that nobody’s reading”- Tim O’Brien (on the subject of death)“You can turn it off. You can turn off the hurt.. emptiness.. all of it. But it’s deceiving Jeremy, it doesn’t last. I mean an eternity of feeling nothing, that’s its own torture.” - Stefan Salvatore (Vampire Diaries Deleted Scene)“I cry because others are stupid and it makes me sad.” - Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)”And you’re tired. Tired of everything, tired of nothing. Tired of waiting. Tired of having to be the one to fix yourself and everyone else. Tired of being strong but you know you have to be strong for yourself because no one can fix you … and for once, you wish it were easy.”- Tumblr (Unknown)”Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.”- Martin Luther King Jr.”I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.” - George Burns”A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” - Joseph Stalin“The only reason people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.” - Paul Fix“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.” -Bruce Springsteen“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.” - Rabindranath Tagore“Either you have an enviable memory, or a pitiable life, to know nothing of regret.” - Sten (DragonAge)“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that is is stupid.” - Albert Einstein