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#1

“i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and began again in the morning.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

856 likes

#2

“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

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#3

“Don’t spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

45 likes

#4

“Selfishness is one of the surest signs of profound unhappiness.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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#5

“Paths are made by walking”
― Franz Kafka

1271 likes

#6

“You Are One Decision Away from a Completely Different Life”
― Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage

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#7

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

tags: goals

5409 likes

#8

“Si puedes mirar, ve. Si puedes ver, repara.”
― José Saramago, Ensayo sobre la ceguera

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#9

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: favourite-quote, inspirational

1786 likes

#10

“… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

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#11

“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: belief, change, faith, life, magic, universe

1443 likes

#12

“You are free and that is why you are lost.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

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#13

“There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta #3

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#14

“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: authority

155 likes

#15

“Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: authority

151 likes

#16

“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: authority

89 likes

#17

“Authority that can not be questioned is tyranny" Terry Pratchett: A Slip of the Keyboard”
― Hank Quense

tags: authority, government, tyranny

29 likes

#18

“Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.”
― Frank H. Knight

tags: efficiency, sleep, sleeping, time, waste

70 likes

#19

“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

tags: change, enlightening, life, transition

137 likes

#20

“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
― Jean Racine

tags: comedy, emotions, feeling, life, thinking, tragedy

1276 likes

#21

“You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Netochka Nezvanova

tags: artists, misery

408 likes

#22

“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#23

“Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

tags: pain

99 likes

#24

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

671 likes

#25

“Every door is a portal leading through time as well as space. The same doorway that leads us into and out of a room also leads us into the past of the room and its ceaselessly unfolding future.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

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#26

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

178910 likes

#27

“Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.”
― Tumblr

tags: books, quotes, tree, tumblr

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#28