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Over the pandemic, I had done breath work and meditating, and I had learned that fear and excitement are the same thing, more or less, with the only difference being that fear was excitement without breathing. When you take breathing away
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“I'm not so worried anymore, because now I know nobody knows what they are doing in life, and nobody knows what to do when bad things happen, to themselves or to other people. We make it up as we go, and sometimes we are big and generous and sometimes we are small and petty. We say the wrong things, we obsess over all the ways we got it wrong and all the ways that other people did, too. The only thing I know for sure it that it is okay not to know everything, to try and fail and to sometimes suck at life, as long as you try to get better.”
― It's Okay to Laugh
― It's Okay to Laugh
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
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“For me it was important to be alone; solitude was a prerequisite to being openly and joyfully susceptible and responsive to the world of leaves, light, birdsong, flowers, flowing water.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
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“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
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