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#1

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

tags: goals

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#2

“All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.”
― William Faulkner

tags: destiny, fate, future, generational, generational-baggage, history, past, present

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#3

“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#4

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die”
― Anonymous

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#5

“The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.”
― Dodie Smith

tags: family, family-ties, love, tentacles

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#6

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality" says Iris Murdoch.
But given the state of the world, is it wise?”
― Iris Murdoch

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#7

“There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”
― Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters

tags: life, past-and-future

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#8

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
― Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

tags: acceptance, comfort, home, protection, safety, security

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#9

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

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#10

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

tags: change, childhood, future

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#11

“Nothing happens until something moves.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inertia, physics, universe

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#12

“History has a way of altering villains so that we can no longer see ourselves in them.”
― Adam Serwer

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#13

“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: vulnerability

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#14

“Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: love, memory, senses

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#15

“It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”
― Sally Kempton

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#16

“When I let go of what I am
I become what i might be.”
― Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching

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#17

“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.”
― George Iles

tags: faith, hope

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#18

“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
― Joseph Campbell

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#19

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.”
― Frank Crane

tags: trust

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#20

“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
― Honore de Balzac

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#21

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

tags: kindness

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#22

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: paraphrased

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#23

“Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”
― Martin Heidegger

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#24

“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
― Helen Keller

tags: inspirational

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#25

“The cries you run from do not cease to exist simply because you cannot hear them.”
― Anonymous

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#26

“Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.”
― Lao Tzu

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