“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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You fit into me – Margaret Atwood
“You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye”
― Margaret Atwood
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Human rights – Kofi Annan
“Human rights are what make us human. They are the principles by which we create the sacred home for human dignity.”
– Kofi Annan
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Learning – Sandy Speicher
“Learning is the process of using our innate abilities to construct—or create—new understandings of the world.”
– Sandy Speicher
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Good – Marcus Aurelius
“Stop talking about being good, just be one”
– Marcus Aurelius
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We fall in love with… – Alain De Botton
“We don’t fall in love with those who care for us in ideal ways, we fall in love with those who care for us in familiar ways.”
– Alain De Botton
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Woman – Wanda Irving
“I don’t know if Shalon became the woman that she ultimately wanted to be. But I do know that she wanted to be the woman she was.”
– Wanda Irving
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Delicate illusions – Hunter S. Thompson
“The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
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Vitality – Andrew Solomon
“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality…”
– Andrew Solomon
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Special – Stephen Hawking
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special.”
– Stephen Hawking
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This is what you shall do – Walt Whitman
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
— Walt Whitman
“There are three things people tend to confuse: depression, grief and sadness.
Grief is explicitly reactive. If you have a loss and you feel incredibly unhappy, and then, six months later, you are still deeply sad, but you’re functioning a little better, it’s probably grief, and it will probably ultimately resolve itself in some measure.
If you experience a catastrophic loss, and you feel terrible, and six months later you can barely function at all, then it’s probably a depression that was triggered by the catastrophic circumstances.
The trajectory tells us a great deal. People think of depression as being just sadness. It’s much, much too much sadness, much too much grief at far too slight a cause.”
– Andrew Solomon
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Judging people – Morgan House
“…not all success is due to hard work, and not all poverty is due to laziness. Keep this in mind when judging people, including yourself.”
– Morgan House
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Intimacy – Andrew Solomon
“There’s no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.”
– Andrew Solomon