“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.”
― Every Day
― Every Day
“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
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