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Lauren’s Quotes

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

tags: buddhism, metaphysics, philosophy, religion, tao, taoism, theology, zen

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“But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.”
― Megan Hart, Broken

tags: broken

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“We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.”
― Emilio Estevez

tags: beautiful, broken, connection, imperfection, life, truth

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“Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: adolescence, adulthood, growing-up, i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings, maturity, maya-angelou, youth

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“And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.”
― Hermann Hesse

tags: cycles, death, rebirth

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