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“Life is short. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn’t appreciate and value you.” Sarah Dessen (via kari-shma)

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“I make the world my office because you can’t sit in a matchbox and be creative.” André Leon Talley. (via owlssayhooot)

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“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 to 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 that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There’s a reason I said I’d be happy alone. It wasn’t because I thought I’d be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. It’s easier to be alone, because what if you learn that you need love and you don’t have it? What if you like it and lean on it? What if you shape your life around it and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It’s like dying. The only difference is death ends. This? It could go on forever” Meredith Grey; Grey’s Anatomy Season 7 Episode 22 (submitted by i-get-around)

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“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” Malcolm S. Forbes (via deafeningsilence)

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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank (via deafeningsilence)

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“Happiness is only real when shared.” Into The Wild (via rebekitahhh)

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“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” ‘Eat Pray Love’ by Elizabeth Gilbert (via quote-book)

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.” Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn