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“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
― Rita Mae Brown

tags: bad-memory, forgiveness, happiness, memory

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“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

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#3

“Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

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#4

“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
― Jean Paul Sarte

tags: truth

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#5

“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.”
― Tom Waits

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#6

“Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

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#7

“Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: action, progress

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#8

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength

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#9

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: failure, passion

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#10

“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine

tags: rapture

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#11

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
― Orson Scott Card

tags: remaining-silent, restraint, reticence, words

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#12

“We all move uneasily within our restraints.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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#13

“I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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#14

“But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

tags: fear, monsters

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“I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

tags: behaviour, temperament

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#16

“Time will pass; these mood will pass; and I will, eventually, be myself again. But then, at some unknown time, the electrifying carnival will come back into my mind.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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#17

“You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but you will be soon,' but you know you won't.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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#18

“Thank you for a lovely weekend.
They tell me it rained.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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“I avoided situations that might otherwise trip or jangle my hypersensitive wiring, and I learned to pretend I was paying attention or following a logical point when my mind qas off chasing rabbits in a thousand directions.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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#20

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

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#21

“I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: alone

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#22

“If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: dreamer, imagination, liar, make-believe, poetry, wisher, wishes

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#23

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”
― Judith Thurman

tags: dreamer, explore, travel

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#24

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

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#25

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

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#26

“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

tags: ghosts, haunt

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#27

“I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#28

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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#29

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth

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#30

“With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

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