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#1

“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
― George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

tags: hypocrisy, man, shooting-an-elephant

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#2

“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson

tags: freedom, inspiration, poetry

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#3

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability

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#4

“But you're so busy changing the world
Just one smile can change all of mine”
― Jack Johnson

tags: change, couples, love, smile, song

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#5

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: humor, intimacy, sexual

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#6

“This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it.”
― Iain Thomas

tags: i-wrote-this-for-you, intimacy, love, skin

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#7

“I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.”
― Milan Kundera, The Joke

tags: hypocrisy, youth

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#8

“And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

tags: choices, free-will, professions, work

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#9

“One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.”
― Beverly Donofrio

tags: life, life-lessons, strength-character, struggle, tragedy, triumph

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#10

“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

tags: choices, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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#11

“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

tags: choices, life

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#12

“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: acceptance, beginnings, choices, counseling, courage, dating-questions, decisions, evaluation, experiences, goals, learning, lessons-in-life, marriage-questions, plans, questions, self-discovery, self-evaluation, self-realization, therapy

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#13

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: choices, fear, hope

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#14

“the tired sunsets and the tired
people -
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: die, lifetime, people, sunsets, time, tired

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#15

“Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Whispering Skull

tags: death, dying, loss

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#16

“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying”
― Thomas Paine

tags: certain, death, dying, uncertain

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#17

“all my grief says the same thing:
this isn't how it's supposed to be.
this isn't how it's supposed to be.
and the world laughs.
holds my hope by the throat.
says:
but this is how it is”
― Fortesa Latifi

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#18

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: love

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#19

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

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#20

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

tags: music, power-of-music

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#21

“It is a tragedy to die with your song unsung.”
― Phil Stutz, The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity

tags: death, music, tragedy

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#23

“Those who have never approached their bodies as temples have no idea of what they are missing. The frog at the bottom of the well sees only a fraction of light and believes it to be the whole sky.”
― Daniele Bolelli, On the Warrior's Path: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology

tags: body, metaphor, perspective

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