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#1

“But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.”
― Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons

tags: addiction, alcoholism, confession

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#2

“A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them...”
― William Petersen, Underground

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#3

“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.”
― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

tags: enough

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#4

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.

[Alexander's tombstone epitaph]”
― Alexander the Great

tags: alexander, alexander-the-great, death, enough, epitaph, tomb, world

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#5

“Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: coffin, contentment, dark, enough, grave, humanity

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#6

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life

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#7

“I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

tags: captive, drunk, jaime-lannister, sun, sunlight

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#8

“She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth.”
― Roman Payne, Hope and Despair

tags: amour, love, nymph, ode, pastoral, pastorale, payne, roman, roman-payne, sleeping, sunlight

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#9

“the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...”
― Stephen King, Carrie

tags: beauty, colors, colours, sunlight

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#10

“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, agony, agony-of-torture, chronic-pain, pain, torture

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#11

“For some reason the word “chronic” often has to be explained. It does not mean severe, though many chronic conditions can be exceptionally serious and indeed life-threatening. No, “chronic” means persistent over time, enduring, constant. Diabetes is a chronic condition, but measles is not. With measles, you contract it and then it is gone. It can sometimes be fatal, but is never chronic. Manic depression, in other words, is something you have to learn to live with. There are therapies which may help some people to function and function for the most part happily and well. Sometimes a talking therapy, sometimes pharmaceutical intervention helps.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: bipolar, bipolar-disorder, chronic, chronic-illness, chronic-pain, lifelong, manic-depression, measles

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#12

“My name is CRPS, or so they say
But I actually go by; a few different names.
I was once called causalgia,
nearly 150 years ago
And then I had a new name It was RSD, apparently so.

I went by that name because the burn lived inside of me.
Now I am called CRPS, because I have so much to say I struggle to be free.
I don't have one symptom and this is where I change, I attack the home of where I live; with shooting/burning pains.
Depression fills the mind of the body I belong, it starts to speak harsh to self, negativity growing strong.
Then I start to annoy them; with the issues with sensitivity,
You'd think the pain enough; but no, it wants to make you aware of its trembling disability.
I silently make my move; but the screams are loud and clear, Because I enter your physical reality and you can't disappear.
I confuse your thoughts; I contain apart of your memory,
I cover your perspective, the fog makes it sometimes unbearable to see.
I play with your temperature levels, I make you nervous all the time -
I take away your independance and take away your pride.
I stay with you by the day & I remind you by the night,
I am an awful journey and you will struggle with this fight.
Then there's a side to me; not many understand,
I have the ability to heal and you can be my friend.
Help yourself find the strength to fight me with all you have, because eventually I'll get tired of making you grow mad.
It will take some time; remember I mainly live inside your brain,
Curing me is hard work but I promise you,
You can beat me if you feed love to my pain.
Find the strength to carry on and feed the fears with light; hold on to the seat because, like I said, it's going to be a fight.
But I hope to meet you, when your healthy and healed, & you will silenty say to me - I did this, I am cured is this real?
That day could possibly come; closer than I want-
After all I am a disease and im fighting for my spot.

I won't deny from my medical angle, I am close to losing the " incurable " battle.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: awareness, chronic-illness, chronic-pain, chronically-fabulous, complex-regional-pain-syndrome, courage, crps, crps-awareness, crps-poem, cure-crps, depression, find-a-cure, heal-yourself, healer, hope, invisible-illness-powerful, light-worker, never-give-up, positivity, powerful, prom, rsd, spiritual, strength

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#13

“Christ was made man that we might be made God.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation

tags: theosis

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#14

“God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.”
― Martin Laird, Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation

tags: contemplative-prayer, incarnation, theosis

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#15

“He who was the Son of God became the Son of man, that man ... might become the son of God.”
― Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies

tags: theosis

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#16

“He who aspires to divine realities willingly allows providence to lead him by principle of wisdom toward the grace of deification. He who does not so aspire is drawn, by the just judgement of God and against his will, away from evil by various forms of discipline. The first, as a lover of God, is deified by providence; the second, although a lover of matter, is held back from perdition by God's judgement. For since God is goodness itself, he heals those who desire it through the principles of wisdom, and through various forms of discipline cures those who are sluggish in virtue.”
― St. Maximos the Confessor

tags: atonement, deification, love, redemption, salvation, theosis, virtue

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#17

“Most people write me off when they see me.
They do not know my story.
They say I am just an African.
They judge me before they get to know me.
What they do not know is
The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;
The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;
The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;
The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;
The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.
Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.
So you think I am nothing?
Don’t worry about what I am now,
For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.
I will raise my head high wherever I go
Because of my African pride,
And nobody will take that away from me.”
― idowu koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

tags: africa, africa-herbalist, africa-house, africa-leaders, africa-people, africa-quotes, africa-s-predicament, africa-s-wealth, africa-will-shake, african, african-american, african-american-authors, african-americans, african-authors, african-believes, african-citizens, african-continent, african-cultural, african-culture, african-cup-of-nations, african-descent, african-development, african-development-bank, african-dictators, african-fiction, african-freethinker, african-great-healer, african-great-lakes, african-healer, african-juju, african-languages, african-leaders, african-literature, african-my-motherland, african-national-congress, african-people, african-proverb, african-quotes, african-safari, african-saying, african-socialism, african-story-telling, african-traditional-healer, african-union, african-voodoo, african-woman, african-women, african-writer, africana, africana-studies, africans, black-america, black-americans, black-book-author, black-girl, black-girls-rock, black-history, black-history-month, black-in-america, black-intellectuals, black-is-beautiful, black-literary-classics, black-literature, black-lives-matter, black-queen, black-woman, black-women, blackness, china-achebe, desmond-tutu, kofi-annan, kwame-nkrumah, nelson-mandela

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#18

“I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.”
― Charles Lee

tags: black, blackness, darkness, darkness-and-light, empty, glimmer, hopeless, light, no-hope, nothingness, shadows, shine, twinkle

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#19

“Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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#20

“All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

(The actual Sylvia Plath quote from "The Moon and the Yew Tree" is:

"And the message of the yew tree is blackness –
blackness and silence.")”
― from the movie "Sylvia" (2003), incorrectly attributed to Sylvia Plath

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#21

“White stars don't mix with the dark blackness of the universe.
If they did... everything would be grey”
― Erik Tanghe

tags: blackness, brightness, darkness, grey, mix, star, stars, universe, what-if, white, white-stars

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#22

“I sold my elegant blackness to all those childhood ghosts and now they pay me for it.”
― Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

tags: beauty, blackness, race-and-racism-in-america

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#23

“It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop dead, and how black women are ravaged by HIV/AIDS. The numbers graft to poverty but they also graph to stresses known and invisible. How did we come here, after all? Not with upturned chins and bright eyes but rather in chains, across a chasm. But what did we do? We built a nation, and we built its art.”
― Elizabeth Alexander, The Light of the World

tags: african-american, blackness, death, race

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#24

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man, it has created a new white man, too. No road whatever will lead Americans back to the simplicity of this European village where white men still have the luxury of looking on me as a stranger. I am not, really, a stranger any longer for any American alive. One of the things that distinguishes Americans from other people is that no other people has ever been so deeply involved in the lives of black men, and vice versa. This fact faced, with all its implications, it can be seen that the history of the American Negro problem is not merely shameful, it is also something of an achievement. For even when the worst has been said, it must also be added that the perpetual challenge posed by this problem was always, somehow, perpetually met. It is precisely this black-white experience which may prove of indispensable value to us in the world we face today. This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.”
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

tags: african-americans, american-history, blackness, history, race, race-relations, stranger-in-the-village, whiteness, whites

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#25

“I love my blackness. And yours.”
― Deray McKesson

tags: blackness

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#26

“...в самой глубине души у Корнелия жило опасливое понимание, что эта бодрость, этот счастливый настрой могут оказаться недолгими. И опять придёт уныние, неуверенность. Страх...”
― Vladislav Krapivin, Выстрел с монитора. Гуси-гуси, га-га-га...

tags: blackness, fear, uncertainty

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#27

“You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

tags: being-black, black-power, blackness, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, life, life-lessons, life-lessons-quotes, living, living-life, living-now, people-of-color, strength

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#28

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: life

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#29

“Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.”
― Kurt Cobain, Journals

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#30

“I have outlasted all desire,
My dreams and I have grown apart;
My grief alone is left entire,
The gleamings of an empty heart.

The storms of ruthless dispensation
Have struck my flowery garland numb,
I live in lonely desolation
And wonder when my end will come.

Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted
By tardy winter's whistling chill,
A single leaf which has outlasted
Its season will be trembling still.”
― Alexander Pushkin

tags: death, desire, dreams, grief, heart, lonliness, numbness, poetry

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