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#1

“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”
― H.G. Wells

tags: truth

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#2

“You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of their shame, love, hope or pride.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#3

“The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: badness, fake, genuine, genuineness, goodness, hypocrisy, mermaid, self-acceptance, self-awareness, siren, white-witch, wizard

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#4

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: compassion, einstein, nature, philosophy

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#5

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: adulthood, success, value

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#6

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world

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#7

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
― Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, epiphany, humor, inspiration

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#8

“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
― Albert Einstein

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#9

“God does not play dice with the universe.”
― Albert Einstein, The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55

tags: quantum-physics, science

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#10

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
― Albert Einstein

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#11

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: education, knowledge-wisdom, learning, school, science, wisdom

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#12

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

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#13

“i don't know when love became elusive
what i know, is that no one i know has it
my fathers arms around my mothers neck
fruit too ripe to eat, a door half way open
when your name is a just a hand i can never hold
everything i have ever believed in, becomes magic.

i think of lovers as trees, growing to and
from one another searching for the same light,
my mothers laughter in a dark room,
a photograph greying under my touch,
this is all i know how to do, carry loss around until
i begin to resemble every bad memory,
every terrible fear,
every nightmare anyone has ever had.

i ask did you ever love me?
you say of course, of course so quickly
that you sound like someone else
i ask are you made of steel? are you made of iron?
you cry on the phone, my stomach hurts

i let you leave, i need someone who knows how to stay.”
― Warsan Shire

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#14

“fit in here, in my palm, in my shadow, don’t be bigger than my idea of you, don’t be more beautiful than i can accept, don’t be more human than i am willing to allow you to be and be quiet, you’re too loud, even your un-belonging is loud. quiet your dreams, your voice, your hair, quiet your skin, quiet your displacement, quiet your longing, your colour, quiet your walk, your eyes. who said you could look at me like that? who said you could exist without permission? why are you even here? why aren’t you shrinking? i think of you often. you vibrate. you walk into a room and the temperature changes. i lean in and almost recognise you as human. but, no. we can’t have that.”
― Warsan Shire

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#15

“By the time I’ve finished with you,
you won’t know whether you’ve been kissed or cut,
whether you were loved or butchered.
and either way you probably won’t care,
just grateful you came close enough to touch.”
― Warsan Shire

tags: someone-said, under-their-breath, warsan-shire

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#16

“You tried to change didn’t you?
closed your mouth more
tried to be softer
prettier
less volatile, less awake
but even when sleeping you could feel
him travelling away from you in his dreams
so what did you want to do, love
split his head open?
you can’t make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
and if he wants to leave
then let him leave
you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love.”
― Warsan Shire

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#17

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
― George Carlin

tags: cynicism, disillusionment, idealism

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#18

“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect

tags: disillusionment, innocence, self-acceptance

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#19

“Stupid girl. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.”
― Sylvia Plath

tags: adulthood, disillusionment, dreams, magic

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#20

“You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: adulthood, disillusionment, dreams, magic

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#21

“It's true we all build imaginary prisons for ourselves. Believe that we are trapped behind the invisible bars of the lives we have somehow carelessly constructed for ourselves, despite our youthful promises to ourselves. We see adults who are stagnant and miserable as we grow up. They graffiti the walls behind them with their mistakes and we swear secret oaths that we will heed those warnings. We’re much too clever, we know all the shortcuts and the back alleys.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

tags: disillusionment, getting-stuck, growing-up, imaginary-things, life

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#22

“When you confront, you save yourself of disillusionment.”
― Sunday Adelaja

tags: confront, disillusionment, save, when, you, yourself

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#23

“She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Virgin and the Gipsy

tags: disillusionment, illusion, sympathy

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#24

“Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

tags: disillusionment, fantasy, love, romance

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#25

“All knowledge hurts.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: city-of-bones, disillusionment, experience, knowledge, wisdom

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#26

“Favorite Quotations.
I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.
The worth of a book is measured by what you carry away from it.
It's not over till it's over.
Imagination is everything.
All life is an experiment.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.”
― Pat Frayne, Tales of Topaz the Conjure Cat: Part I Topaz and the Evil Wizard & Part II Topaz and the Plum-Gista Stone

tags: action, adventure, animals, bats, battles, castle, cave-scarey, conjure-cat, curses, dark-powers, evil, fairy-elf, flesh-eaters, forest, fox, friendship, gnome-fortress, gnomes, goose-bumps, healers, lands, loyalty, magic, magic-stone, missing-children, mission, mystery, mystical, ogre, owl, paranormal-powers, quest, raccoon, snakes, spiders, spirit, sprite, suspense, troll, witch, wizard, wolf

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#27

“I am working on a new book about a boa constrictor and a litter of hyenas. The boa constrictor swallows the babies one by one, and the mother hyena dies laughing.”
― E.B. White

tags: boa-constrictor, hyena, hyenas, laughing, snake, snakes

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#28

“There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

tags: snakes

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#29

“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

tags: attraction, co-dependence, divorce, idealism, idealists, marriage, narcissism, sociopathology, the-rules-of-attraction, victims-of-narcissists

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#30

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women

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