"Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break."

Emotion, Hope, Addiction, Tenacity

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"Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break."

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"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Emotion, Pain, Truth, Love

"The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Emotion, Feeling, Depth, Threat, Survival

"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Emotion, Fulfillment, Life, Words, Meaning

"There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Emotion, Heart, Freedom, Expression

"Clean your tears and stop crying, you are not the only one with a broken heart."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Emotion, Tears, Heartbreak, Comfort, Strength

"Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life's shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way. Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, 'there is joy is self-forgetfulness.' So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness."

Helen Keller, American Author

Emotion, Isolation, Fate, Hope, Joy

"You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Emotion, Pleasure, Memory, Life

"I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Emotion, Loneliness, Self, Disgust, Company

"Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Emotion, Feelings, Spiritual, Control

"Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Emotion, Hatred, Pain, Self, Harm

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"Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet."

Humor

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."

Trust

"You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth."

Emotion

"If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create."

Change

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

Survival

"Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal."

Ethics

"HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me."

Philosophy

"Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?"

Identity

"Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins."

Culture

"If this is death, if we are dead or dying or even if we are living and just going to die, then what do we have to fear? What are we worried about? I think the knowledge of death is freeing. That pressure we feel, the weight of life and its impending conclusion, is imaginary. And the fact that we're all in this together is unifying: there's solidarity in mortality."

Mortality