Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. ― Rumi

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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls. ― Khaled Hosseini

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If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.

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Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. ― Bob Marley

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I’ve slowly come to realize dreams are nothing more than broken thoughts we take to the grave with us. ― Brandy Slaven

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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ― Zora Neale Hurston

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The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. ― Nietzsche

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I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world. ― Anthony Bourdain

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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

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Love is healing. Love is comforting. Love is holy. Food can be all those things, too.

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