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#1

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: meaning, mystery, philosophy, purpose, uncertainty

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#2

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
― Gilda Radner

tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability

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#3

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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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

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things

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#6

“Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gently. I want to live within the rush of primal, intuitive decision, yet also wish to sit and contemplate. This is the messiness of life - that we all carry multitudes, so must sit with the shifts. We are complicated creatures, and ultimately, the balance comes from this understanding. Be water. Flowing, flexible and soft. Subtly powerful and open. Wild and serene. Able to accept all changes, yet still led by the pull of steady tides. It is enough.”
― Victoria Erickson

tags: balance, bursting, care, changes, complicated, creatures, flexible, flowing, humans, love, multitudes, open, powerful, pull, serene, shy, silent, solitude, steady, tides, water, waves, wild, words

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#7

“It was her chaos that made her beautiful. ”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild

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#8

“I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.”
― Atticus

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#9

“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
― Vera Nazarian

tags: city, classical, classical-music, folk, folk-music, genre, jazz, jazz-music, metaphor, motif, music, musical, place, road, rock, rock-and-roll, rock-music, temple, wild, wilderness

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#10

“Some days I am more wolf than woman, and I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.”
― Nikita Gill

tags: goddess, wild, wildwoman, wolf, woman

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#11

“We are made of all those who have built and broken us.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild

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#12

“She had just enough madness to make her interesting”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild

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#13

“I worry there is something broken in our generation,
there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild

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#14

“I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

tags: born, children, raised, upbringing, wild

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#15

“That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest days.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild

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#16

“Chase your stars fool, life is short. ”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

tags: atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild

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#17

“She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

tags: compassion, insane, love, wild, women

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#18

“Our
songs
live
longer
than
our
kingdoms.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild

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#19

“We are all born free
and spend a lifetime
becoming slaves
to our own
false truths.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild

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#20

“We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild

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#21

“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: breathe, connection, look-up-and-enjoy-life, perspective, relationship, relax

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#22

“I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we'd be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure. But I found out that a healthy relationship isn't so much about sense of humor or intelligence or attractive. It's about avoiding partners with harmful traits and personality types. And then it's about being with a good person. A good person on his own, and a good person with you. Where the space between you feels uncomplicated and happy. A good relationship is where things just work. They work because, whatever the list of qualities, whatever the reason, you happen to be really, really good together.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

tags: attractive, checkmark, compatible, good, happy, harmful, healthy, intelligence, list, partners, personality, qualities, reason, relationship, sense-of-humor

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#23

“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

tags: affirming, being-alive, life, life-affirming, making-choices, making-the-most, parallel-lives, regrets

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#24

“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

tags: being-yourself, life

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#25

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

tags: life-philosophy, life-quotes

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#26

“We only need to be one person.
We only need to feel one existence.
We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

tags: being-alive, comforting, life, life-affirming

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