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“May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.”— Mother Teresa“We need much less than we think we need.”— Maya Angelou“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”— David Foster Wallace“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”— Adrienne Rich
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Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don’t know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.-Neil degrasse tyson There is a subtle truth: whatever you love you are. -Rumi The only things we ever keepAre the things we give away.-Patricia Jessup What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.-Eckhart Tolle “All things splendid have been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.”-Bruce Barton
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“The greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings… I’m a long way from the human being I’d like to be. But I’ve decided I’m not so bad after all.” - Audrey HepburnIn the last few days, I have had to battle with the fear that everything is actually just random, that the universe is a howling void of meaningless chaos, indifferent to everything that I value. All hope has at times seemed unjustified to me.But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.- John Perry Barlow Oh, let me bathe my soul in colors…let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.- Kahlil Gibran Wash the dust from your soul and heart with wisdom’s water. Awaken.- Rumi
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“People spend a lifetime looking for the answer to life. There is no answer. There never has been an answer, that’s the answer.”Gertrude SteinLove is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”Milan Kundera“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”Umberto Eco “This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you’re loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn’t any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure.”James Lense
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“It’s entirely conceivable that life’s splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible, far away. But there it lies, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If we call it by the right word, by the right name, then it comes. This is the essence of magic, which doesn’t create but calls.”Franz Kafka“To live a creative live, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” - Joseph Chilton Pearce “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”Arthur Rimbaud“If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.”William Blake“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”Miriam Beard
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“Every conceivable life path necessarily excludes something else that could have been awesome. The secret of contentment is to find the awesome in what you currently have, and value that over the potential of lost opportunities.”D. Swanson “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” - G.K. Chesterton“Some people follow their dreams… others hunt them down and mercilessly beat them into submission.”Tom Felton “The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.”Anne RiceEvery atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust.Lawrence Krauss
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“You were unsure which pain is worse - the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”Simon Van Booy “A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”- Albert Einstein “It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire’s tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.”- Lama Thubten Yeshe “Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.”- Rumi “This is the Great Knowing, this is the Awakening, this is the Voidness; so shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”- Jack Kerouac
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“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”Ben Okri  “An invisible red thread connects those destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstances. The thread may stretch or tangle, but never break.”  Ancient Chinese Proverb  “Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.” “The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It’s a wonder that we don’t make love to every single person.” Yoko Ono
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In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.-DANTE ALIGHIERI“I decided to fight because if we’re all going to die, it might as well be for something.”— Raul Hernandez“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”— Sigmund Freud “Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealisable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realisation of both these extreme states are of the same nature; they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.”— Primo Levi
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We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.by Madeleine L’EngleIt’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.by Danzy SennaTraveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.by Cesare Pavese
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But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.by Charles BukowskiI would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.by Carl SaganWe are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.by Paulo Coelho It’s true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.by Jonathan Safran Foer
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And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn’t matter.by Stephen ChboskyWhen you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all… grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.by Chuck Palahniuk We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.by Erich Maria Remarque Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.by Janet Fitch
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I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.― The Fault In Our StarsThere is great chaos under heaven – the situation is excellent.- MAO ZEDONGOur biggest threat isn’t a mass epidemic, global warfare or anything of that nature. Our biggest threat is the desensitizing of our innate receptivity to awe; the dulling of our minds to that ocean of mystery we are immersed in yet unknowingly take for granted. The soul moves in circles, said Plotinus. Hence our lives are not moving straight ahead; instead, hovering, wavering, returning, renewing, repeating. –James HillmanThe only sensible way to regard life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for. –Robert Henri
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