phrases & quotes that have kind of rewired my brain
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No love is ever lost. I used to feel like I wasted my love on the wrong people but in the course of my healing, not only have I felt the love I've poured out come back to me in different ways, but I have been reminded that love is not expendable at all. Love cannot be measured nor contained. Discarded nor wasted. It has no form or shape. It surrounds us. Love is essential. It's abundant. It's powerful. Its potency makes it capable of finding its way back to you. Again and again and again. Love is a whole phenomenon. Don't ever regret the love you give to anyone. It's theirs. It's yours. It's everywhere. The cycle is infinite.
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Humans are born with a drive to appreciate art. We love color, we love music, we love dance, even as infants. We have an instinct to sculpt in clay and draw on walls, even to fix blocks into expressive shapes, or tell stories with our toys. These things are universal, all cultures have stories and songs and dances and textiles and pottery and beauty. Art is something we all have in us.
haibane renmei's reki
There is no such thing as forever. Everything ends sooner or later. Just as it should. Because now is only now. And this moment is so precious.
haibane renmei's rakka
Somewhere, that’s not here, in a place I can’t remember, I was obsessed with the idea that I was all alone. I thought that nobody would care, or even miss me if I vanished from the face of the Earth. I wanted to disappear. Then I had a dream about falling from the sky. I just remember that the bird was in the dream with me, and that the bird was someone in the form of a bird, trying to call me back. I now know that I was never alone.
texhnolyze's eriko
When everything seems hopeless, remember that there is always a glimmer of light waiting to be found.
texhnolyze's michiko
Life is fleeting, but the bonds we form with others can transcend time.
texhnolyze's ichise
The world doesn’t make sense. But if you don’t try to make sense of it, then you’re lost.
evangelion's kaworu
Humans constantly feel pain in their hearts. Because the heart is so sensitive to pain, humans also feel that to live is to suffer. You're so delicate, like glass, especially your heart.
evangelion's kaworu
I was born to meet you.
twin peak's cooper
Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen..
penguindrum's ringo
I love the word “fate”. Because, you know how they talk about “fated encounters”? A single encounter can completely change your life. Such special encounters are not just coincidences. They’re definitely... fate. Of course, life is not all happy encounters. There are many painful, sad moments. But this is what I think: sad and painful things definitely happen for a reason. Nothing in this world is pointless.
penguindrum's shouma
I hate the word “fate.” Birth, encounters, partings, success and failures, fortune and misfortunes in life. If our lives are already set in stone by fate, then why are we even born? There are those born to wealthy families, those born to beautiful mothers, and those born into the middle of war or poverty. If that’s all caused by fate, then God is incredibly unfair and cruel. Because, ever since that day, none of us had a future and the only certain thing was that we wouldn’t amount to anything...
penguindrum's himari
That’s when I realized! That I had become a child who would be found. So I broke into tears of happiness. No matter how far we’re separated, you two would definitely find me. It’s nice knowing someone will find you.
higurashi's rena
A flower raised in a greenhouse is still beautiful, even though it knows no adversity. But a flower growing in the field that has braved wind, rain, cold and heat possesses something more than just beauty.
nabari's hanabusa
Everyone isn't concerning themselves with you because they want something in return. They stay by your side because they like you.
kundera's the unbearable lightness of being
For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
DGM's kanda yu
This world is dark and it's so hard to breathe... But in this instant, when I laughed along with you, I felt that breathing just got a little easier.
kanon's shiori
When you're halfway through a story, you want to be able to expect a happy ending, right? You don't want it to be sad, life is hard enough without that. I think that's where fiction came from... People dreaming of a world where things end happily.
EF a fairy tale of's mizuki
No matter how much you treasure them, both people and things will die someday. The bonds, the feelings, the memories, the hearts, and the lives. There’s nothing in this world that won’t die. There’s nothing that won’t break. Happiness is nothing more than a fabrication; a false mirage. That’s why... That’s why we should treasure them. So that we can face the farewell that’ll one day visit us without regret. Because it’ll break, it is precious. Let’s make it precious.
kundera's life is elsewhere
Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.
gianluca gotto
The ego makes you believe that you have the world on your shoulders, and this is too great a responsibility to live peacefully. Humility erases the poison of the ego and brings you to the awareness that you are not at the center of the universe, but you are part of it. And all we have to do is be grateful and happy for this, every single day. Therefore it is important to observe the sunrise. It helps to find the right perspective again: it was there before you, and it will be there after you. You are here, passing through, and instead of worrying and aiming for more and more, you should simply enjoy this possibility: a new day. Twenty-four hours at your disposal. Every dawn is the possibility of being reborn.
gianluca gotto
Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. Sometimes you are happy, sometimes you are sad. Life isn't right or wrong: it just is.
van gogh
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
van gogh
...And then, I have nature and art and poetry. And if that is not enough, what is enough?
van gogh
I don't know anything with certainty but seeing the stars makes me dream.