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#1

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

tags: inspirational, life

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#2

“It’s painful, loving someone from afar.
Watching them – from the outside.
The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs…..
They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all.”
― Ranata Suzuki

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#3

“For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
― Herman Melville

tags: beasts, beasts-and-men, men

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#4

“Beasts bounding through time.

Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine
the impossibility of being human
Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief
Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town
the impossibility of being human
Burroughs killing his wife with a gun
Mailer stabbing his
the impossibility of being human
Maupassant going mad in a rowboat
Dostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shot
Crane off the back of a boat into the propeller
the impossibility
Sylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potato
Harry Crosby leaping into that Black Sun
Lorca murdered in the road by the Spanish troops
the impossibility
Artaud sitting on a madhouse bench
Chatterton drinking rat poison
Shakespeare a plagiarist
Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness
the impossibility the impossibility
Nietzsche gone totally mad
the impossibility of being human
all too human
this breathing
in and out
out and in
these punks
these cowards
these champions
these mad dogs of glory

moving this little bit of light toward
us
impossibly”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

tags: beasts, beatiful, bukowski, champions, cowards, creatures, dog, glory, mad, soul, truth

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#5

“I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, and gave me the softest place to sleep, and nursed me back to health, and haven't asked for anything in return.

The animals are on the other side of the fence: monsters wearing uniforms. They speak softly, and tell lies, and smile as they're slitting your throat.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

tags: beasts, invalids

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#6

“The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

tags: beasts, darkness, light, prey

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#7

“We thought too much.
Because while hatred is a fire only man feels, he does not hate the beast that comes in the night. Mankind fears it, fights it, drives it off, but he does not hate it. No one hates the bear, he wolf. They don't hate the wind or the snow. They don't hate the death.
They hate each other.”
― Meagan Spooner, Hunted

tags: beasts, hunted, yeva

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#8

“[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: animals, beasts, human-condition, humanity, men

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#9

“Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life. There is a wealth of knowledge that is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals. Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: ancestors, animal, animals, animals-and-man, beasts, class, classroom, creatures, cure, cures, earth, environementalism, environment, knowledge, lessons, life, medicine, natural-medicine, nature, nature-classroom, purpose, suzy-kassem, teach, universe, wild, wildlife, wisdom

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#10

“Every once in a while, I get the urge. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? The urge for destruction. The urge to hurt, maim, kill.

It’s quite a thing, to experience that urge, to let it wash over you, to give in to it. It’s addictive. It’s all-consuming. You lose yourself to it. It’s quite, quite wonderful. I can feel it, even as I speak, tapping around the edges of my mind, trying to prise me open, slip its fingers in. And it would be so easy to let it happen.

But we’re all like that, aren’t we? We’re all barbarians at our core. We’re all savage, murderous beasts. I know I am. I’m sure you are. The only difference between us, Mr Prave, is how loudly we roar. I know I roar very loudly indeed. How about you? Do you think you can match me?”
― Derek Landy

tags: beasts, china, china-sorrows, death, death-bringer, killing, murder, roar

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#11

“What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.”
― Chief Seattle

tags: beasts, chief-seattle, connected, man

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#12

“As beasts are beneath human restraints, gods are above them... It would be foolish and untruthful to deny the appeal of exalted, godlike intoxication....We have seen the paradox that these godlike exalted moments often correspond to times when the men who have survived them say that they have acted like beasts....Above all, a sense of merely human virtue, a sense of being valued and of valuing anything seems to have fled their lives....However, all of our virtues come from not being gods. Generosity is meaningless to a god, who never suffers shortage or want. Courage is meaningless to a god, who is immortal and can never suffer permanent injury. The godlike berserk state can destroy the capacity for virtue. Whether the berserker is beneath humanity as an animal, above it as a god, or both, he is cut off from all human community when he is in this state.”
― Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

tags: beasts, berserk, gods, moral-injury, trauma, virtue

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#13

“Inhabit the beauty that lives in your beastly body and strive to see the beauty in all the other beasts.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

tags: acceptance, beasts, beauty

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#14

“There's no point in caging all the animals if you're gonna unleash the beasts.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

tags: animal, beasts, beasts-and-men, brotherly-love, cruelty, humanity, inclusion, inhumane, love-people, savagery

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#15

“I cannot hope to make you understand how the world is truly made,' he told her. 'Metaphor, then: the world is a weave, like threads woven into cloth.' His hand came out of his sleeve with a strip of his red ribbon.

'If you say so.'

'Everything, stone, trees, beasts, the sky, the waters, all are a weave of fabric,' he said patiently. 'But when you think, it is different. Your thinking snarls the fabric, knots it. If you were a magician, you could use the knot of your mind to pull on other threads. That is magic, and now you see how every simple it is. I wonder everyone does not become an enchanter.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Salute the Dark

tags: beasts, cloth, enchanters, everything, fabric, magic, metaphor, mosquito-kinden, patient, princess-seda, red-ribbon, ribbon, stone, the-sky, the-waters, think, trees, uctebri-the-sarcad, wasp-kinden, weave

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#16

“You and I are nothing but wild beasts wearing human skins.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

tags: aelin, badass-ladies, beasts, lysandra

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#17

“Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: animals, bad-friends, bad-people, beasts, dangerous-people, enemies, enemy-friends, friends, hatred, know-your-steps, malevolent-people, malice, oblivion, playing-with-fire, predators, relationships, spy-your-enemies, sycophants, terrorists, the-unknown-devil, watch-your-friends, wolves-in-sheep-clothing, worthless-people

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#18

“The winged beasts and angels know, that mortals cannot fly.
But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.”
― Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal From the Edge of Darkness

tags: angels, beasts, bird, fly, mortals, wings

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#19

“Sky and the stars and the sun, and the moon and the mountain and the rivers will smile, if you smile.
Beasts and the brutes and the monsters and the birds, and the flowers, and the plants, will be kind if you are kind.
Doomed and the hopeless and the condemned and the ruined and the miserable and the lost, will be happy if you are happy.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry

tags: beasts, birds, bruts, flowers, kind, monsters, moon, mountain, plants, rivers, sky, smile, stars, sun

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#20

“A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals, knowing that much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. Animals are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: animals, beast, beasts, behavior, class, classroom, cures, education, human, knowledge, learning, man, nature, teach, teaching, watching, wild, wildlife

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