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#1

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

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#2

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friendship

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#3

“How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive.”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

tags: trauma

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#4

“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

tags: angst, anxiety, conservatism, delusion, psychology, uncertainty

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#5

“Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

tags: psychology

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#6

“But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

tags: bipolar, humor, mania, manic, mental-illness, psychology

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#7

“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
― William Gibson, Zero History

tags: design, engineering, psychoanalysis, psychology

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#8

“It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

tags: gossip, psychology, remaining-silent, reticence, silence

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#9

“She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

tags: psychology

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#10

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way

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#11

“We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.”
― Bucky Sinister, Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos

tags: recovery

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#12

“We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.”
― Martin Buber

tags: honesty, hope, insignt, recovery, redemption

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#13

“One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity”
― Roddy Doyle, Paula Spencer

tags: 12-steps, alcoholism, recovery

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#14

“Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion”
― Lynn Crilly, Hope with Eating Disorders

tags: eating-disorder, guilt, recovery

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#15

“Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone; it is the mind which must be treated.”
― Lynn Crilly, Hope with Eating Disorders

tags: anorexia, recovery

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#16

“Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict.
So I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing.
-Drizzt Do'urden”
― R.A. Salvatore, Sea of Swords

tags: hindsight, hope, regret

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#17

“Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

tags: chidlhood, regret

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#18

“There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

tags: regret, suicide

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#19

“No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

tags: bad, regret, trouble

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#20

“You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.”
― Angelina Jolie

tags: life, regret

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#21

“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

tags: awkard, final, leaving, regret

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#22

“Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.”
― Jude Watson, Beyond the Grave

tags: amy, cahill, gomez, ian, kabra, nellie, regret

194 likes

#23

“And I want to tell you about everything but I can't because I couldn't stand for you to have that look on your face all the time. I just need you to look at me and think that I'm normal. I just really need that from you.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

tags: regret, suicide, suicide-note

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#24

“She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.”
― Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes

tags: journal, life, past, present, problematic, regret

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#25

“The expression in her eyes was bitter as nightshade. 'You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself? I've given more thought to this question than you can begin to imagine.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

tags: chain, daughter, ingrid, links, mother, regret

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#26

“Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
― Lawrence J. Peter

tags: regret, speak

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#27

“Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.”
― Danny Wallace, Yes Man

tags: learning, regret

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#28

“I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.”
― Mike Carey, Lucifer, Vol. 5: Inferno

tags: regret

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#29

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
― Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

tags: family, friendship, humor

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