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#1

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

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#2

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
― Maya Angelou

tags: music

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#3

“You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

tags: beautiful, completion, love, music, recognition, sad

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#4

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, comfort, completion, fulfillment, home, irrevocability, permanence, philosophy, psychology, safety, security, state-of-mind

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#5

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
― Brene Brown

tags: belonging, courage, inspirational, light, love, vulnerability

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#6

“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”
― Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, country, empowerment, home, homelessness, independence, individuality, inspirational, nationality, roots, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust

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#7

“A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.”
― Desmond Tutu

tags: belonging, community, oneness, togetherness, ubuntu

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#8

“Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

tags: belonging, chaos, civilization, destruction, fear, insecurity, misogyny, racism, religion, roots, war

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#9

“Hygge is a quality of presence and an experience of togetherness. It is a feeling of being warm, safe, comforted and sheltered.
Hygge is an experience of selfhood and communion with people and places that anchors and affirms us, gives us courage and consolation.
To hygge is to invite intimacy and connection. It's a feeling of engagement and relatedness, of belonging to the moment and to each other.
Hygge is a sense of abundance and contentment.
Hygge is about being not having.”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

tags: abundance, being, belong, connection, contentment, engage, feeling, hygge, relate, togetherness

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#10

“Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." -Hans Christian Anderson”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

tags: butterfly, enough, flower, freedom, hygge, living, nature, sunshine, wellbeing

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#11

“When we are content, our daily actions are infused with a quiet satisfaction that we share with those around us. We become aware of and responsible for other people’s well-being and they, in turn, for ours. Hygge captures a way of being with other people, caring for them and ourselves.”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Contentment, Comfort, and Connection

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#12

“Hygge is a phenomenon that reflects our way of inhabiting the world. The routines that shape our days locate us - from the places we visit to the small rituals that give us pause.”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

tags: hygge, inhabit, pause, place, reflect, ritual, routine, shape, visit

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#13

“Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

tags: architecture, humane, hygge, meaningful, place, scale, shelter, understand, world

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#14

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

tags: days, habit, hygge, lives

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#15

“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
― Bob Ross

tags: art, inspirational

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#16

“How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”
― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

tags: solitude, soul

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#17

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: language, perception, power-of-words

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#18

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: power-of-words

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#19

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: description, language, power-of-words, words

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#20

“Head up, heart open. To better days!”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

tags: confidence, encouragement, endurance, faith, inspiration, optimism, quotes

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#21

“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”
― Edward Hopper

tags: inadequacy-of-words

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#22

“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”
― Diane Setterfield

tags: writing

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#23

“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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#24

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: advice, bruce-lee, inspirational

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#25

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee

tags: advice-for-daily-living, prayer

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#26

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

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#27

“As you think, so shall you become.”
― Bruce Lee

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#28

“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”
― Bruce Lee

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#29

“Real living is living for others.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: living

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#30

“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”
― Bruce Lee

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