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"This is so depressing that I am forced to take a short break." — Oct 24, 2017 08:54AM
"This is so depressing that I am forced to take a short break." — Oct 24, 2017 08:54AM
“But let a perpetual smile
of peace and satisfaction
On your lips
Be a symbol of the decision
To think happiness (equanimity)
Since everything that happens
Happens in your head”
― Some of the Dharma
of peace and satisfaction
On your lips
Be a symbol of the decision
To think happiness (equanimity)
Since everything that happens
Happens in your head”
― Some of the Dharma
“...someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience.”
― Shutter Island
― Shutter Island
“Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’
‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.”
― Thousand Cranes
‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.”
― Thousand Cranes
“Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.”
― The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, Volume 4 1945-1950
― The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, Volume 4 1945-1950
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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