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Der Ekel

by Jean-Paul Sartre

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“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: attitude, awareness, disorders, dreams, enlightenment, faults, focus, forgetting, future, goals, here, here-and-now, identity, issues, journeys, letting-go, life, life-lessons, living, memories, mental-illness, now, pain, past, planning, present, present-moment, realism, regrets, sanity, self-awareness, unresolved

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“I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

tags: corwin, growing-up, growth, life, moving-forward, moving-on, self

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“It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: change, endings, friendship, growing-up, life

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“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
― Edgar Allen Poe

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“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: growing-up

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