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“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not”
― The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
― The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”
― The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
― The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
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