#19 Unknown homesick

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. 

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#18 Take a breath

Breathe enough to accept the air unfiltered,

I don’t care what season it is,

experience the ability to live with consequences you may never understand;

caution can be the worst poison. 

- Rakishi cir. 1952.

#11 Let it go

Sometimes love just isn't enough. sometimes we have to let go of something that once meant the world to us. not because we want to. but because we have to. but life will keep going with or without them. life doesn't stop for you, or for anyone else. life is life. it’s hard, but there are those amazing moments that make you who you are. don’t sit around crying when you let someone go. someday you’ll be okay again. promise.

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I know I have to let it go, but sometimes it's really not that easy. 

#10 x

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

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#9 Don't be afraid to make mistakes

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.

So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

-Neil Gaiman

#8 Silence

“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”

-Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

#7 Fit In

I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don’t find funny, saying things I don’t really mean - because at the end of the day that’s what we’re all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we’re all the same.

-Tabitha Suzuma 

#6 3.34am

Someone once told me that human beings have three dimensions: how you see yourself, how others see you, and how you want others to see you. The closer the distance between the three dimensions, the more at peace you are and the more stable you become.

-Marwa Rakha (The Poison Tree)

#5 Why

You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains.

You say that you love the sun, but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines.

You say that you love the wind, but you close your windows when wind blows.

This is why I am afraid, you say that you love me too.

-William Shakespeare

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Ok, i chanced upon this chinese translation from weibo and i'm really amazed by it! Here it goes:

恋雨偏打伞，爱阳却遮凉。风来掩窗扉，叶公惊龙王。
片言只语短，相思谴倦长。郎君说爱我，不敢细思量。

#4 Define love

If I could hold your heart I would keep it safe. Even when I trip and fall, and even when I break down, I would hold your heart close to mine, so it doesn't see the same damage. When I bruise my knees and scrape my palms you’ll never have to fear, and even if I cry, I promise, you won’t need to shed a tear. Love is everlasting. Loyalty is intertwined with faith. As long as you want me I will be here, standing with my palms out, waiting with my heart plain in my eyes, and a smile on my face.

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