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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.

— Alan Watts
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We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.

— Thomas Merton
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Every place I have ever visited changed my life in some way, either spiritually, emotionally or intellectually. Isn’t that the point of travel?

— Anonymous 
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

— Pearl S. Buck
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For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

— Donald Williams
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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.

— Anaïs Nin
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You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.

— Carl Sagan
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

—  Friedrich Nietzsche 
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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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