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Simon Van Booy Inspirational Quotes (47)

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Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
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The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
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I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.
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Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.
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I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.
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Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.
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When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.
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When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.
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But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.
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Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
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Some studies show that we're physically attracted, like animal attraction, to people that have a different immune system to us. So even though I love cologne, it's probably keeping me from finding a good mate.
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For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.
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Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.
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For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
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I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.
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I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.
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Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.
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Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
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We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.
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But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?
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Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
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You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
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It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.
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I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.
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