“No Man, For Any Considerable Period, Can Wear One Face To Himself And Another To The Multitude, Without

T.S. Eliot, from “III. The Fire Sermon”, Collected Poems, 1909-1962

“I can’t think of a better way to revenge someone who tried to break you, than to live and love life more without them.”

— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe 

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Ottis P. Lord written c. March 1878

Alexander Blok, translated by Robert Chandler, from a poem titled "She Came Out in the Frost,"

“He does not know how to love anyone but himself, and when he wants to love others he always has first to transform them into himself. In that he is ingenious.”

—Daybreak, §412 (edited).

“She would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love […] in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“I wore my fairy dress of tulle and danced until midnight.”

— Anais Nin