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“If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead,”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

“- Голямата любов, синко, не я срещаш. Спомняш си я в мига, в който се появи пред очите ти (Михаил)”
― Мария Лалева, Живот в скалите

“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“- Ех, момиче, нека ти кажа и аз нещо. Животът, любовта и децата не ни прнадлежат. Имат си собствени закони и собствен път. Идват точно когато са ни нужни и си отиват пак така, но никога случайно. По тяхната си логика, не по нашата. Затова много често не ги разбираме. Можем да направим само едно - да ги приемем с благодарност, когато дойдат, да им даден вичко най-красиво от себе си и да ги изпратим пак с благодарност, че са споделили себе си с нас. Не тъгувай, Марина, и запомни: любовта не свършва и не умира, тя просто си отива... На друго място, при други сърца. И се връща при теб с друго лице, с друго сърце. Понякога със същото лице, със същия човек, но само тя знае защо отново ви среща. Явно не сме дорасли да познаваме тайната й. А може би истината е толкова близо до очите ни и толкова просто, че не я виждаме. Казах проста, но това не я прави лесна. (Демир)”
― Мария Лалева, Живот в скалите

“I’ve always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We’re all made of the same thing—the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“She was done, gone. She had been comfortable, and comfort is the death of the soul, which is by nature searching, insistent, unsatisfied. This dissatisfaction drives the soul to leave, to get lost, to be lost, to struggle and adapt. And adaptation is growth, and growth is life. A human’s choice is either to see new things, mountains, waterfalls, deadly storms and seas and volcanoes, or to see the same man-made things endlessly reconfigured.”
― Dave Eggers, Heroes of the Frontier

“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.”
― Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“This may be illustrated by the Taoist story of a farmer whose horse ran away. That evening the neighbors gathered to commiserate with him since this was such bad luck. He said, “May be.” The next day the horse returned, but brought with it six wild horses, and the neighbors came exclaiming at his good fortune. He said, “May be.” And then, the following day, his son tried to saddle and ride one of the wild horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. Again the neighbors came to offer their sympathy for the misfortune. He said, “May be.” The day after that, conscription officers came to the village to seize young men for the army, but because of the broken leg the farmer’s son was rejected. When the neighbors came in to say how fortunately everything had turned out, he said, “May be.”14”
― Alan W. Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist