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“Closeness eases the anxiety and depression of believing that no one really cares about you. It softens the frustration and anger that come with feeling that no one understands you. Suddenly, others become available to us. Suddenly, we feel better inside.”
― Kira Asatryan, Stop Being Lonely: Three Simple Steps to Developing Close Friendships and Deep Relationships

tags: anger, anxiety, closeness, depression, frustration

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“Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We’ve got to come up with a better answer.”
― Ali Smith, Winter

tags: generous, ingenious

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“Poetry comes to me like breathing. I inhale and breathe in the fragrances, flavors, emotions, sentiments, and feelings of people and places and breathe out poetry.”
― Avijeet Das

tags: feelings-and-emotions, fragrance-quotes, people, places, poems-on-life, poetry, why-i-write, words

5 likes

“If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.”
― Carl Perkins

tags: bed, rocks, song, stream

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“If we have shortcomings, we are not afraid to have them pointed out and criticized, because we serve the people. Anyone, no matter who, may point out our shortcomings. If he is right, we will correct them. If what he proposes will benefit the people, we will act upon it.”
― Mao Tse-tung

tags: communism, criticism, governance, public-administration

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