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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight


Ishikawa Takuboku

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NEHA KOTHARI If death is all about parting with body then immortality is about being dead when alive.
AKSHMALA SHARMA I feel like I was being tortured, like I had my soul taken away from me or something.
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DANIEL OJEDA When death takes the soul from youth, their youth becomes eternal to the living
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there.
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ALAN COHEN These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain agains...
JOHN GREEN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after b...
HANIEL LONG It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all ...
KHALED HOSSEINI It hurts to say that,” he said, shrugging. “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted w...
KHALED HOSSEINI I lay there drifting, wondering, imagining...
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KHALED HOSSEINI And taken in exchange - my youth.
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NASSER HUSSAIN In my perception and self - awareness of life, I see the big picture ~ I see my self ~ the place of ...
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LILLIAN S. VILORIA The Wanderer

What is she like?
I was told—
she is a
melancholy soul.
LANG LEAV I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability ...
ANTHONY GOLDBLOOM I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything.
Maybe we’re fr...
EMERY ALLEN My soul is dark! oh quickly string The harp I yet can brook to hear.
UNKNOWN Christianity, above all, has given a clear-cut answer to the demands of the human soul.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The large crowds (at Kite Flight) and the color in the sky make it entertaining for everyone. It's a...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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DIMEBAG DARRELL The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,
The secret of life is Don't ever lose your sense...
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT The national leadership of SNAP has never taken this extreme position before and obviously we don't ...
BARBARA BLAINE If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies...
N.T. WRIGHT your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE Like the kite that caught up to the sky,
painted with clouds, I lost track of it,
but it ...
KELLI RUSSELL AGODON Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.
STEFAN EMUNDS The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at onc...
EDGAR ALLAN POE My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
LANGSTON HUGHES Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.
No matter how har...
RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever ,
Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Hope dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption
Winding in and winding out
The sh...
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL Two things I ask of my God today. That my faith be hoisted high like a kite up in the sky and my fea...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When unity of the mind, speech and body occurs, God has called that the ‘foremost’ religion. If ...
DADA BHAGWAN The tide has pulled the storm from my soul, again.
NICOLE LYONS Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not so...
JOHN LYDON We learned no team can be taken lightly.
CASSIE COOPER Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutraliz...
DAVID JEREMIAH I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ul...
EMMYLOU HARRIS This is not something that should be taken lightly, it's not something that should invoke pressure f...
BOB LIVINGSTON Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY If the soul is immortal then it is one with the Godhead.
N. K. DAVID When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud ...
HERMANN HESSE The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken l...
GLORIA ESTEFAN Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Lesson 1: Don't trust anybody.
Lesson 2: Be confident.
Lesson 3: Nothing is ever what it s...
JACK HEATH The soul ... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of...
JAMES JOYCE The doctors cannot make the ignorant think, cannot hope to bring home the sufferings of millions; on...
RADCLYFFE HALL Ahesta boro, Mah-e-man, ahesta boro.
KHALED HOSSEINI “The worth of souls should not be taken lightly, for we all are God’s Children.” ~ Tom Baker
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CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive r...
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ISABEL RAMOS I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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