Simon Van Booy quotes - page 2

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will. (Simon Van Booy)
Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go. View quote
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If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched. View quote
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Every moment is the paradox of now or never. View quote
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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. View quote
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Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us. View quote
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Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life. View quote
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Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them. View quote
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To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on. (Simon Van Booy)
I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. View quote
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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. View quote
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I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted. View quote
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For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home. View quote
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Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same. View quote
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Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things. View quote
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Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine. View quote
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There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth. View quote
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Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come. View quote
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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. (Simon Van Booy)
I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world. View quote
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You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other. View quote
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Coincidences mean you're on the right path. View quote
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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. View quote
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