Papallona

Papallona //
23. Spain.

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¨Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.¨ -R. Frost

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“It’s just an illusion we have here on Earth, that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.”— Kurt Vonnegut
“Every man’s ultimate creation is himself.”“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”— Ernest Hemingway“Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.”— Charles Bukowski

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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.-Maya Angelou
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it.-Haruki MurakamiThe most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.-Rachel Naomi Remen
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.—Marge Piercy

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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.— Jean-Paul Sartre
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.”— Eckhart von Hochheim
I run because it’s so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can’t. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you’re capable of so much more than you thought.-Arthur BlankYou are an unfinished work in progress. One of the good things about life’s challenges: You get to find out that you’re capable of being far more than you ever thought possible.-Karen Salmansohn

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I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.— C.G. JungWhat I’m saying to you this morning is that communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.— Martin Luther King, JrI can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.— John Cage
Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. Its’swhat you do with what you have left.— Hubert Humphrey

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“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”-Alan Watts “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”-Sylvia Plath“Change isn’t easy… changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That’s hard… When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so badly to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.”-Dean Koontz
Oh, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that’s not how it works. A human’s life is a beautiful mess.— Gabrielle Zevin

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I was better after I had cried, than before—more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.-Charles DickensI think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.-Shannon HaleI swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.-Elie WieselI stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.-Phillip Pullman

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To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” -William James
Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.-Albert Einstein“We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” ― J.K. Rowling

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“I believe that chance creates order in the world. We can’t choreograph life events, but we can clasp the hands of those who appear in our paths and see where they lead us.”— Maria Mayo Robbins
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.” -Joseph Campbell
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.-Anais NinIt’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.-W. Somerset Maugham

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“That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can’t change anything but yourself.”-Marilyn Manson“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”-Pema Chödrön
It is not enough merely to seek greatness for ourselves, we must help others discover greatness within themselves. -Michelle ObamaIt is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.- Steve Almond

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I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.— Jane AustenThrough others we become ourselves.— Lev S. Vygotsky
It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them — and they simply don’t need you. That’s all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they’ll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on — this desperate need — and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.— Madeleine L’Engle“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”-Charles Dickens

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.~ T.S. EliotI don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.~ Jonathan Safran Foer

But you are my nomad and I love you sideways daily. Sideways because I have to beam my love in all directions, hoping it bounces off something and eventually finds you.~ “The Long and the Short of It” - Richard SikenI was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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