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“But maybe love is expansive enough to remember everything and still transcend it all.” #theforgotttendaughter

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“Happiness is a condition of the mind, or more specifically, the imagination.” #vinylcafediaries

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“I was starting to wonder if being afraid wasn’t, in fact, a reason not to do something. Maybe it was even more of a reason to try.” #whatmighthavebeen

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“Do you ever think about how crazy that is?—Our miraculous capacity to love? We don’t know why, we don’t know how, but our hearts and souls are drawn to others. We weren’t made to be alone. We were made to love.” #hernameinthesky

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“The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you” #atomichabits

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My mother, a woman with a PhD, didn’t bat an eye. “Of course a person can levitate,” she told me as we sat beside the Christmas tree eating Pot of Gold chocolates. #modernfables

[maureenktang @maureenktang]

“…real toughness isn’t about bullying another guy. It’s usually about sticking up for someone else — or taking a hit for someone else.” #99storiesofthegame

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In some ways it might seem silly even to make the effort, since the environmental problems facing our world are so much bigger than any one person’s actions. But some walls also seem so huge and impossible that it appears pointless to work toward them. #aloneonthewall

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If he’s not careful, we could admire Alex Honnold to death #aloneonthewall

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57 for our first in Renfrew! #yyckidcount

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“She got lost in my heart, I think.” #andeverymorningthewayhomegetslongerandlonger #backman

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“Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual’s consciousness is a collection of memories we’ve cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived. […] one that burns down and disappears when we die #thelibrarybook

[maureenktang @maureenktang]

“Love demands a whole person, all the best of you, all the worst. It has nothing to do with romance […]” #TheWinners

[maureenktang @maureenktang]

“Remember […] how much it hurts to have your heart broken. Remember about death and suffering and the complexities of living. Remember what it is like to love someone. Remember how it is to be loved. Remember what you feel in this moment. Remember this.” #everythingleadstoyou

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“The only true currency we have in life is the effect we have on those around us.” #BeyondTheWand

[maureenktang @maureenktang]

“i came to make the sky a garden.” #tonightinoakland #100queerpoems

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“…because for some of us, coming out in some way is an inescapable part of falling in love.” #ithinkiloveyou

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“…we are what we love. We are that we love. […] We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved.” #storiedlifeofAJFikry

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“It’s strange how close love and fear live to each other” #mygrandmothersendsherregretsandapologies #backman

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“‘Because who we are, ultimately, is the sun total of the various decisions we make over a lifetime.’” #thepoweroffun #hosanger