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    Jodi Picoult
    “Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disillusionment, growing-up, narrow-mindedness, open-mindedness, wonder
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    Yoko Ono
    “Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
    Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
    Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
    Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
    ― Yoko Ono
    tags: aging, autumn, fall, life, seasons, spring, summer, time, winter
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: buddhism, common-sense, life, zen
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  • #4
    “The object of your desire is not an object.”
    ― Jack Gardner, Words Are Not Things
    tags: desire, objects, zen
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    Don Roff
    “Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.”
    ― Don Roff
    tags: art, assume, audience, creative, creative-process, drawing, life, master, masterful, painting, photography, student, tip, writing, zen
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    Ian Tucker
    “Every answer you ever need lies within your own silence..”
    ― Ian Tucker, Your Simple Path - Find Happiness in every step.
    tags: happiness, happy, peace, reiki, self-help, zen
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    Leonard Scheff
    “When angry, count to Zen.”
    ― Leonard Scheff
    tags: anger, buddhism, leonard-scheff, the-cow-in-the-parking-lot, zen
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    Deepak Chopra
    “To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.”
    ― Deepak Chopra
    tags: self-power
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    Marya Hornbacher
    “I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry.”
    ― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
    tags: anorexia
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    Marya Hornbacher
    “I didn't particularly want to live much longer than that. Life seemed rather daunting. It seems so to me even now. Life seemed too long a time to have to stick around, a huge span of years through which one would be require to tap-dance and smile and be Great! and be Happy! and be Amazing! and be Precious! I was tired of my life by the time I was sixteen. I was tired of being too much, too intense, too manic. I was tired of people, and I was incredibly tired of myself. I wanted to do whatever Amazing Thing I was expected to do— it might be pointed out that these were my expectations, mine alone— and be done with it. Go to sleep.”
    ― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
    tags: eating-disorders
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    Jerold J. Kreisman
    “The theologian Paul Tillich wrote that "loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude." Because the borderline finds solitude so difficult to tolerate, she is trapped in a relentless metaphysical loneliness from which the the only relief comes from of the physical presence of others. So she will often rush to singles bars or with crowded haunts, often with disappointing--or even violent--results.”
    ― Jerold J. Kreisman, I Hate You—Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
    tags: borderline, borderline-personality, borderline-personality-disorder, bpd
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    Charles Bukowski
    “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Libba Bray
    “Do you ever feel that way?"
    "Lonely?"
    I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met yourself yet. As is you'd passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt - 'Ah! There I Am! I've been missing that piece!' But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it."
    He nods, and I think he's appeasing me. I feel stupid of having said it. It's sentimental and true, and I've revealed a part of myself I shouldn't have.
    "Do you know what I think?" Kartik says at last.
    "What?"
    "Sometimes, I think you can glimpse it in another.”
    ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
    tags: epiphany, found, gemma-doyle, kartik, lonely, lost, restless, self-discovery
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    Antonio Cisneros
    “If you’re not careful
    you’ll end up believing this is the world”
    ― Antonio Cisneros, Spider Hangs Too Far From the Ground
    tags: naivety, reality
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    Marya Hornbacher
    “There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”
    ― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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    Alyson Noel
    “And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.”
    ― Alyson Noel, Evermore
    tags: misery, sobriety
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    Gillian Flynn
    “I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
    tags: hard-hearted, sobriety
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    “Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: "What can I do today to make my life better?" "What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?”
    ― Bucky Sinister, Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos
    tags: 12-steps, atheist, recovery, sobriety
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    Lawrence Block
    “I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it.

    But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.”
    ― Lawrence Block, Out on the Cutting Edge
    tags: addiction-and-recovery, alchoholism, pain, sobriety
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  • #20
    Anne Lamott
    “...being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
    tags: drunkenness, sobriety
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  • #21
    “Someone who is trying to be sober is often trying to work out deeper emotional issues and is attempting to undo years of habitual behavior. When you reduce recovery to just abstinence, it simplifies what is really a much more complex issue.”
    ― Sasha Bronner
    tags: addict, addiction, addiction-and-recovery, alcohol-abuse, alcoholism, mental-health, sober, sobriety, substance-abuse
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