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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
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    Catherine Fisher
    “Walls have ears.
    Doors have eyes.
    Trees have voices.
    Beasts tell lies.
    Beware the rain.
    Beware the snow.
    Beware the man
    You think you know.
    -Songs of Sapphique”
    ― Catherine Fisher, Incarceron
    tags: beware, people-will-hurt-you, rain, snow, walls
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, November
    tags: heart, rain, sadness, winter
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  • #7
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Pat Barker
    “Didn’t you find it all … rather unsatisfying?”
    “Yes, but I couldn’t seem to see a way out. It was like being three different people, and they all wanted to go different ways.”
    A slight smile. “The result was I went nowhere.”
    ― Pat Barker, Regeneration
    tags: mental-health, multiple-personalities, trapped
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    Pat Barker
    “You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.”
    ― Pat Barker, Regeneration
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    Pat Barker
    “I don't know what I am, but I wouldn't want a faith that couldn't handle facts.”
    ― Pat Barker, Regeneration
    tags: faith, religious
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  • #11
    “They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”
    ― Clint Eastwood
    tags: happiness, heaven-made, lightning, marriage, married-life, matrimony, quarrel, thunder
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  • #12
    Ray Bradbury
    “Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
    tags: language, lightning, nature, rain, thunder, wind
    136 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: adversity, challenges, courage, friendship, life, rain, snow, snowstorm, snowstorms, storm, storms, storms-of-life, suffering, sunshine, thunder, thunderstorm, thunderstorms, weather
    126 likes

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  • #14
    Criss Jami
    “If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: adversity, alone, beautiful, compassion, difficulties, finding-oneself, hardship, humanity, loneliness, misunderstanding, pain, sadness, solitude, understanding
    774 likes

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  • #15
    René Descartes
    “Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.”
    ― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
    tags: mind-soul
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    Joanne Greenberg
    “There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.”
    ― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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    Joanne Greenberg
    “I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why, before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.”
    ― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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    Joanne Greenberg
    “She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.”
    ― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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    Joanne Greenberg
    “Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”
    ― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
    tags: despair, hope, mental-health, mental-illness, philosophy, psychology
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    Joanne Greenberg
    “At least being nuts is being somewhere.”
    ― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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  • #21
    Joanne Greenberg
    “Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.”
    ― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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  • #22
    Joanne Greenberg
    “If one is to be doomed, one must be beautiful, or the drama is only a comedy.”
    ― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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  • #23
    Joanne Greenberg
    “The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.”
    ― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
    tags: art, artist, creativity, hope, inspiration
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  • #24
    Joanne Greenberg
    “ghosts of the past still clutch at you in the present”
    ― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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  • #25
    William James
    “Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.”
    ― William James
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  • #26
    Mircea Eliade
    “Bucureştiul, îndeosebi, are cele mai toxice amurguri, în toate anotimpurile. E greu să rămâi singur, să nu te îndrăgosteşti, să nu-ţi cauţi pereche într-un astfel de oraş, în care soarele se stinge cu atâta melancolie...”
    ― Mircea Eliade, Nuntă în cer
    40 likes



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