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"You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough."

— Adam Marshall

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."

— Og Mandino

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

(Source: how-novelistic, via fierceblackgirls)

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

— Rumi

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful."

— Agnes De Mille

"It is of course possible to dance a prayer."

— Glade Byron Addams

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way — things I have no words for."

— Georgia O’Keeffe

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"Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution."

— Deepak Chopra

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"Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our own unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts."

— Buddha

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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

— Carl Jung

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"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one"

— Bruce Lee

(Source: we-find-wildness)

"Someday this pain will be useful to you."

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(via ericlarkin)

*lord have mercy, if this isn’t exactly the quote of the day!

"Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we must never write anyone off. In particular, we mustn’t put boundaries on our own potential. In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves."

— daisaku ikeda

(Source: dustisinvisible)

"The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it."

—

The War of Art (via nevver)

alright already!

(via ahnka)

"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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