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“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

tags: carpe-diem, future, present

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“Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: acceptance, attitude, beauty, beginnings, confidence, difference, different, future, insecure, insecurity, integrity, letting-go, moving-on, not-caring, personality, pride, proud, quality, self-acceptance, self-love, special, unique

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“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: advice, future, life, self-determination

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“In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior...”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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“I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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