“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Fishing – Henry David Thoreau
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Life has no warning – @beehives
“Life has no warning and love has no reason.”
– Bean toad @beehivesy twitter
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Denial – Jonathan Cainer
“Denial is a side-effect of cowardice. Consciousness requires courage. When we are afraid to deal with an issue, we try to pretend it doesn’t exist. That’s particularly convenient when we don’t know what to do. Ignore it, we figure, and maybe it will go away. It takes real strength to say, ‘I don’t have the answer and I’m worried that even if I can get it, I may not like it, but I am going to keep on asking questions anyhow.’ The latter approach, though, you can take with honour. You will be surprised how well it works.”
– Jonathan Cainer
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Nationalism – Albert Einstein
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”
– Albert Einstein
“Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you’re still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as ‘race,’ ‘class,’ ‘nation,’ and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
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Patriotism is – George Bernard Shaw
“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it….”
― George Bernard Shaw
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Anxiety – Soren Kierkegaard
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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If it’s still in your mind – Paulo Coelho
“If it’s still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk.”
– Paulo Coelho
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Friction in couples – Alain de Botton
“Friction in couples much reduced with an a priori recognition that no one is ever just ‘mean’ or Not Nice. They are hurt. For reasons.”
– Alain de Botton
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He who has a why – Nietzsche
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
– Nietzsche
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The good life – Bertrand Russell
“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
– Bertrand Russell
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Tone – Darkandbrooding
“Tone is difficult to convey via the written word, and there is a tendency for the mind to supply it when reading. Read the parent paragraph aloud, and play with the inflection of key words. Your initial tonal interpretation was one of many possibilities.”
– Darkandbrooding (reddit user)
“After something happens to you, you either over dramatize it or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones.”
– Sylvia Plath
“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen, but are to be lived.”
– Soren Kierkegaard