- Institution
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Grow Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020