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#1

“Stop it with this desire to be ‘normal’. What the hell is ‘normal’ anyway?” he continued, using air quotes to excess. “’Normal’ people as you put it couldn’t even begin to imagine the things you’ve been through, let alone survive them. Yet here you are, still fighting, striving. You’re right, Amy… you’re not normal. You are so much more.”
― Nicola Haken, Saving Amy

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#2

“Each and every one of these should be a reminder of how strong you are. You should look at them and remember what you’ve been through, and feel proud that you’re still here – still fighting.”
― Nicola Haken, Saving Amy

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#3

“Everything you consider to be wrong with you are just the results of you trying to be strong for too long --- trying to cope alone for too long. Don't you think it's amazing that after everything you've been through --- the violence, the fear, the isolation... you can still do this? That you can still feel? Still trust? Because I sure as hell think it's a miracle. I think you're a miracle.”
― Nicola Haken, Saving Amy

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#4

“Anything that is held in secret cannot be healed. The light cannot reach that which is locked away in the dark.”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

tags: darkness-and-light, darkness-quotes, growth, growth-quotes, healing, healing-quotes, healing-the-past, spiritual-healing, spirituality

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#5

“The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices.”
― Stacie Hammond, Ana J. Awakens

tags: book-quotes, brilliant, darkness-and-light, inspirational-quotes, perspective-on-life, quotes-to-live-by, self-awareness, transformation-spirituality

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#6

“Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are captives of darkness; but we become light by illuminating the night. Remember that always.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: be-the-light, darkness, darkness-and-light, guidance-quotes, illuminate, inspirational-quotes, light, light-up-the-night, wisdom-quotes

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#7

“Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”
― Stephen King

tags: darkness

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#8

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

tags: consciousness, darkness, enlightenment, light

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#9

“Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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#10

“To laugh is to live profoundly.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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#11

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world

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#12

“You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them from the world. In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

tags: darkness-and-light, darkness-within, defeat-the-darkness, inner-demons, light, light-and-darkness, light-within

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#13

“You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Двести лет вместе

tags: limits-of-power, nothing-left-to-lose, tyranny

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#14

“My friend, I've been lying all my life. Even when I was telling the truth. I never spoke for the truth, but only for myself, I knew that before, but only now do I see...Oh, where are those friends whom I have insulted with my friendship all my life? And everyone, everyone! Savez-vous, perhaps I'm lying now; certainly I'm also lying now. The worst of it is that I believe myself when I lie. The most difficult thing in life is to live and not lie...and...and not believe one's own lie, yes, yes, that's precisely it!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

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#15

“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him..”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz

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#16

“Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.”
― Thomas Szasz

tags: legal, medicine, morality, psychiatry

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#17

“The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion "I am sick" as equivalent to the assertion "I am not responsible": Smokers say they are not responsible for smoking, drinkers that they are not responsible for drinking, gamblers that they are not responsible for gambling, and mothers who murder their infants that they are not responsible for killing. To prove their point — and to capitalize on their self-destructive and destructive behavior — smokers, drinkers, gamblers, and insanity acquitees are suing tobacco companies, liquor companies, gambling casinos, and physicians.”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz

tags: health, responsibility

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#18

“Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz

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#19

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

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#20

“Look to your right... It is the path back home. If you choose, you can take it. It is safe, easy, and comfortable. You do not have to work out or fight or do anything else you do not want to...

Or you can keep moving forward. I will not lie to you. I cannot predict what may become of you. It will require a lot of training, hard work, study, and danger. But in the very end, you will know strength. I swear it. You might just become someone who will make a difference in the world.”
― Wesley Chu, The Lives of Tao

tags: hard-work, make-a-difference, manning-up, road-less-traveled, strength, turning-point

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#21

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― Carl Jung

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#22

“Head Vs Heart:

A crowded mind
Leaves no space
For a peaceful heart”
― Christine Evangelou, Beating Hearts and Butterflies: Poetry of Wounds, Wishes and Wisdom

tags: anxiety-quotes, heart-quotes, inner-calmness, inner-peace, inspirational-quotes, intuition, mindfulness, mindset-quotes, overthinking, soul-quotes

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#23

“حياتك حافلة، مليئة، كاملة، أو هكذا يخيل إليك، حتى يظهر فيها شخص يجعلك تدرك ما كنت تفتقده طوال هذا الوقت.
مثل مرآة تعكس الغائب لا الحاضر، تريك الفراغ فى روحك، الفراغ الذى كنت تقاوم رؤيته.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

tags: قواعد-العشق-الأربعون

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#24

“Bountiful is your life, full and complete. Or so you think, until someone comes along and makes you realize what you have been missing all this time. Like a mirror that reflects what is absent rather than present, he shows you the void in your soul—the void you have resisted seeing. That person can be a lover, a friend, or a spiritual master. Sometimes it can be a child to look after. What matters is to find the soul that will complete
yours. All the prophets have given the same advice: Find the one who will be your mirror!".”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

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