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It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#dismiss #either #fantasy #found #futile

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues. ↗

— Count Basie

#course #lot #still #treat #ways

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up. ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#dreams #even #haven #i #old

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. ↗

— John Barrymore

#how #month #never #pay #realize

I'm still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky. ↗

— Mischa Barton

#back #bit #bits #changing #earrings

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die. ↗

— Martha Beck

#challenge #creating #die #end #happy

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#made #never #practical #until #will

The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#altered #always #angry #anything #come

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#does #enslaving #european #feel #free

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way. ↗

— Beck

#appropriate #come #digest #distill #eight