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n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only...
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“The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that...”
– Jostein Gaarder
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“It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our...”
– Anne Rice, Queen of the Damned (via theresnolight)
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“All people who are happy have God within them”
– Paulo Coelho (via life-itself-is-a-quotation)
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“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.”
– Proverbs 4:23 (via askingalexa777)
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“The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know. The more I realize I don’t...”
– Albert Einstein (via amynoelle)
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“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most...”
– Sigmund Freud (via blua)
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“Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear you...”
– Haruki Murakami (via life-itself-is-a-quotation)
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
– A.A. Milne (via life-itself-is-a-quotation)
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“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
– Christopher Morley (via life-itself-is-a-quotation)
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“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to...”
– Siddhārtha Gautama (via life-itself-is-a-quotation)
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“Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories...”
– Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)
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The Meaning of Things
Things aren’t meaningingless…that’s the beauty of it. You get to choose the meaning. You get to create the world as you see fit.
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“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
– Wallace Stevens (via life-itself-is-a-quotation)
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“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
– Iris Murdoch (via life-itself-is-a-quotation)
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“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
– George Eliot (via life-itself-is-a-quotation)
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“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
– Andre Gide (via life-itself-is-a-quotation)
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“Symmetry is merely an expression of how something stands in relation to itself.”
– Unknown
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“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via life-itself-is-a-quotation)
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“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
– Albert Einstein (via life-itself-is-a-quotation)
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Choice
There is always a choice.
Of course, there are also always consequences, so it may not seem like you have a choice.
But you do.
The main question is, are you willing to violate yourself and something you believe in? Are you willing to violate what you are willing to be? Or are you willing to preserve those, no matter the consequences?
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“Life is great. Don’t let circumstances and society fool you into believing it’s...”
– Adabella Radici (via lajoiedespetiteschoses)
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“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
– Dalai Lama (via life-itself-is-a-quotation)
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to...”
– Anne Frank (via life-itself-is-a-quotation) 