“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
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“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Autumn Leaves
― Autumn Leaves
“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
― The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
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