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| Listed below is a collection of quotes that I have found that are either in relation to SI, emotional pain, or simply inspiring. "There's nothing worse than being surrounded by people and feeling like you are all alone." - G.M. "Some people complain because God put thorns among roses, while others praise Him for putting roses among thorns." - Unknown "Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt." - Mark Twain "Dreams are renewable, no matter what our age or condition. There are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty is waiting to be born." - Unknown "I am alive. See me bleed." - Unknown "Pain of mind is worse than pain of body." - Unknown "When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any other blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon our souls?" - Unknown "And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, the hand that held the steel. For only blood can wipe out blood, and only tears can heal." - Oscar Wilde, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" "How will you know I'm hurting, If you cannot see my pain? To wear it on my body Tells what words cannot explain." - C. Blount "Tell me that you don't take that blade, and drag it across your skin, and pray for the courage to press down." - "Lisa" (Angelina Jolie), Girl, Interrupted "I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside." - "Susanna Kaysen" (Winona Ryder), GIrl, Interrupted "Smiling is only a symptom of happiness and can be faked. Do not assume that everybody who smiles is happy." - Jessica Albert "Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in." - American Beauty "Break the bones and the body will heal. Break the spirit and the body will die." - Anonymous "Imitation is suicide." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." - Les Brown "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "You have so much pain inside yourself that you try to hurt yourself on the outside." - Princess Diana "Pain is weakness leaving the body." - Unknown "Conformists look around and follow closely. Nonconformists look around and do the opposite. Individualists don't look around a lot." - Eromon D'Alyzala "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean "People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life. Define yourself." - Harvey Fierstein "Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken winged bird That cannot fly." - "Dreams," Langston Hughes "People ask, 'How did you get in there' What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can say is, it's easy." - Susanna Kayson, Girl, Interrupted "Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you." - Dorothy Parker "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' " - Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey "This above all; to thine own self be true." - Hamlet, William Shakespeare "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain "Out of pain beauty does come." - Anonymous "Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." - Arabic Parable If you have a quote that you would like to add, please email me and I'll post it on the page. |
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