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I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#marriage #silence #talk #life

You live but once; you might as well be amusing. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#carpe-diem #humor #life #humor

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#life #maturity #life

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #secrets #life

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#empowerment #girls #identity #individuality #self-determination

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#life #life

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#heart #life #suffering #life

My name is Ashallyn'darkmyr Tallyn, third son of the Unseelie Court...Let it be known--from this day forth, I vow to protect Meghan Chase, daughter of the Summer King, with my sword, my honor, and my life. Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, my blade will be at her side. And should it fail to protect her, let my own existence be forfeit. This I swear, on my honor, my True Name, and my life. From this day on..." His voice went even softer, but I still heard it as though he whispered it into my ear. "I am yours. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#honor #love #life

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#happiness #loser #sisterhood #life

I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#being-loved #inspirational #life #love #relationships