Maybe You
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Take a lover who looks at you
like maybe you are magic.
Frida Kahlo

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”Coud, Punchuncavi, Chile” by Rod Sot (rodsot) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

Anyone who takes
the time to be kind
is beautiful.
Richelle E. Goodrich

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I swear to you, there are
divine things more beautiful
than words can tell.
Walt Whitman

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The sea tells you everything
will be fine. The mountains
tell you it doesn’t matter
anyway.
Adeel Ahmed Khan

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”Gold Canyon, United States” by Kevin Green (k_green0319) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

I tell thee Love is Nature’s
second sun,
Causing a spring of virtues
where he shines.
George Chapman

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”Cityscape View with Sunset” by Kasuma, Wikimedia, CC0

“The most common way
people give up their power
is by thinking they don’t
have any.”
Alice Walker

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The clearest way into the
Universe is through a forest
wilderness.
John Muir

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I’ve been homesick for
countries I’ve never been,
and longed to be where I
couldn’t be.
John Cheever

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”The Salar de Uyuni Flags near Salt Desert, Bolvia” by jerzykwpodrozy at the Wayback Machine, CC0,

Silence is the language of
God, all else is poor
translation.
Rumi

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”Barcelona Water” by Biel Morro (bielmb) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

No winter lasts forever; no
spring skips its turn.
Hal Borland

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”Enlightened” by Jonatan Pie (r3dmax) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

Let the rain kiss you. Let
the rain beat upon your
head with silver liquid
drops. let the rain sing you
a lullaby.
Langston Hughes

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Trees that are slow to grow
bear the best fruit.
Moliere

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”Afternoon Sunset” by Cerys Lowe (ceryslowe_1) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

We shall meet in the place
where there is no darkness.
George Orwell

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”Beyond the Cosmos” by Joshua Sortino (sortino) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

Poetry is what happens when
nothing else can.
Charles Bukowski

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”Smile” by lloorraa at the Wayback Machine, CC0

Be ignited or be gone.
Mary Oliver

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Love and work are to people
what water and sunshine are
to plants.
Jonathan Haidt

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The fool attempts to predict
the next big wave while
ignoring the tide.
James Rozoff

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Then that’s what the Northern
Lights are. All the lives that
we’re not living.
Adi Alsaid

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I can calculate the motions of
heavenly bodies, but not the
madness of people.
Isaac Newton

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I will not be another flower,
picked for my beauty
and left to die. I will be
wild, difficult to find, and
impossible to forget.
Erin Van Vuren

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If you don’t know what port you
sail to, no wind is favorable.
Seneca

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We make time for the things
we love, and excuses for the
things we don’t.
Mark Anthony

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Ask for what you want and
be prepared to get it.
Maya Angelou

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He who jumps into the void
owes no explanation to those
who stand and watch.
Jean-Luc Godard

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”Blue Universe” by Felix Mittermeier at Wikimedia, CC0

You are not a footnote. You
are the entire story.
Joan David

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The way you see people is
the way you treat them, and
the way you treat them is
what they become.
Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe

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The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying
because it’s a disaster is a
very, very fine line.
Roald Dahl

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People who have overcome
darkness in their life
typically have a fire inside
them
that
is
almost
impossible to extinguish.
Stephen Timoney

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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
William Faulkner

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All things fade into the storied
past, and in a little while are
shrouded in oblivion.
Marcus Aurelius
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All big things come from small
beginnings.
James Clear

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These mountains that you
are carrying you were only
supposed to climb.
Najwa Zebian

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How long are you going to
wait before you demand the
best for yourself?
Epictetus

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As far as we can discern, the
sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in
the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung
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Enlightenment is when a wave
realizes it is the ocean.
Thich Nhat Hanh

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If people did not sometimes do
silly things, nothing intelligent
would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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”Flying Sparks” by Johannes Groll (followhansi) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

The soul should always stand
ajar, ready to welcome the
ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickenson

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All good things are wild and
free.
Henry David Thoreau

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”Nature, Forest, Trees, Fog” by Jaymantri at Wikimedia, CC0

I am in you and you in me,
mutual in divine love
William Blake

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I often think that the night is
more alive and more richly
colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh

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If you don’t become the ocean,
you’ll be seasick every day.
Leonard Cohen

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”Imersion” by Ameen Fahmy (ameenfahmy_) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

The prettier the garden, the
dirtier the hands of the
gardener.
B.E. Barnes

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”Blurry White Daisies” by Benny Jackson (themightymerlin) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

Most of the time, the universe
speaks to us very quietly
…in pockets of silence, in
coincidences, in nature …
Yumi Sakugawa

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”Deep Red Chrysanthemum” by Richard Harris (richardharrisdesign) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to
lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner

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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
Franz Kafka

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It is absurd to divide people
into good and bad. People
are either charming or
tedious.
Oscar Wilde

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”From Above” by Christopher Burns (christopher__burns) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

Everything has beauty, but
not everyone sees it.
Confucius

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When a flower doesn’t bloom,
you fix the environment in
which it grows, not the flower.
Alexander Den Heijer

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”Flowers ona Mossy Rock” by Matthew Smith (whale) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

The salt in the sea is the same
as the salt in our blood.
William McKeever

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Don’t look to the sky for fireworks when you can watch
them light up in the eyes of
all the people passing by.
Tyler Kent

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”Splendid Fireworks” by DeltaWorks at the Wayback Machine, CC0

Talent hits a target no one
else can hit; Genius hits a
target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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”A Day Out in the Rain” by Sanjeevan SatheesKumar (evannn_n) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

Color is my day-long
obsession, joy, and
torment.
Claude Monet

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”Hanging the Beauty from Sky” by Nikunj Gupta (mecyborg) at the Wayback Machine, CC0

Life’s beauty is inseparable
from its fragility.
Susan David

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”Jellyfish Swarm” by FF16 Wikimedia, CC0

It is the peace of the forest
that I carry inside.
Dr. Jane Goodall

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”Forêtcanopée” by Lars_Nissen from Wikimedia, CC0

The invariable mark of
wisdom is to see the
miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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”Small Tree Green” by Bhupendra Shrestha - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia

The strong are always simple.
Leo Tolstoy

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”Boulevard” by PublicDomainArchive Wikimedia, CC0

At night I dream that you and
I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined.
Pablo Neruda

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