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"The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows."

— Brene Brown

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"We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us."

— Thich Nhat Hanh 

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"Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?"

— Chuck Palahniuk

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yufeelme:

don’t hate your body because it’s too fat or too thin hate it because it’s a prison of flesh and its existence is meaningless

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"A moment was the most you could expect from perfection."

— Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)

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"People assume that great minds always have great insights."

— David R. Shaffer

"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain."

—

Saint Bartholomew 

Need this on my first page again sry.

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"If we are really wise, we will make a working arrangement with the bear that lives with us, because otherwise we shall starve or perhaps be eaten by the bear."

— Robertson Davies

"Death = being completely inside one’s own head
Life = the world"

—

Susan Sontag (via spectrumandspectacle)

Actually I’m pretty sure being completely inside one’s own head is limbo.

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"The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will."

— William James, Principles of Psychology (1890)

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"I’ve tried to put you down on paper so many times.
But you keep getting up."

— I Wrote This For You: The Air Carries You Away 

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"50% of the stuff I do is bad, and that’s just going to be the way it is, and if I can’t accept that then I’m not cut out for this. The trick is to know what’s bad and not let other people see it."

— David Foster Wallace 

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"God, youth is a terrible time! So much feeling and so little notion of how to handle it!"

— Robertson Davies

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"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart."

— Maya Angelou

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"Torture was part of an understanding of the interrelation of body and soul."

— Lyndal Roper 

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