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“The way to value life, the way to feel compassion for others, the way to love anything with greatest depth is to be aware that these experiences are destined to be lost.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

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“Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.”
― Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

tags: closure, death, grief

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“Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness -- the feeling that someone is trying to think about us -- something we want more than praise?”
― Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

tags: attentiveness, praise, present-moment

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“От едната страна бяха планините, от другата - критското море, а отгоре синьо, кадифено небе; и над всяка ергенска или моминска глава танцуваше по хиляди начини Вечерницата.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

tags: Казандзакис

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“No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.”
― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

tags: ambition, conceit, death, importance, self-importance, significance

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