“I am constructing my reality with unreal, otherworldly materials. It is almost poetic; this outstanding self-manipulation.”
– Sylvia Plath
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Honest friendship – Mariella Frostrup
“Bear in mind that a dishonest friendship isn’t worthy of further investment while an honest one offers a refuge for life.”
– Mariella Frostrup
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Hope – Alexander Pope
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast.”
– Alexander Pope
“Like everyone else, you’ve probably grown up watching a lot of movies, and the thing about movies is that the stories that offer the most escapism by nature give you the least accurate picture of the real world. Lacking are the movies about how the universe is a big unfair mess of random shit and awkward gray areas in which you are entitled only to die screaming. Your life is not a character arc in which the Love Interest is obligated to appear at some point – it is a horribly free-form escalator ride to the grave, and it’s up to you to make the most of it by shaping yourself into the kind of person that the kind of person you’re attracted to would plausibly find attractive. Something you’re clearly not doing already, because you have the dating profile of the hero, the protagonist, the One True Human, who is intrinsically attractive without having to grow as a person.”
– Winston Rowntree
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The right person – Erich Fromm
“The man who waits for the right person to come along can be compared to the man who wants to paint but who, instead, of learning the art, claims that he has just to wait for the right object, and that he will paint it beautifully when he finds it.”
– Erich Fromm
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Be confused – Milton H. Ericsson
“Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.”
– Milton H. Ericsson
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Attention – Simone Weil
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
– Simone Weil
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Step backwards – Unknown
“When you’re at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.”
– Unknown
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Understanding of ourselves – Carl Jung
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
– Carl Jung
“A man walks into a doctor’s office, sits down and says “Now doctor, this may sound kind of strange, but I have five penises”
The doctor, taken aback asks him “My god, well how do your pants fit?”
To which the man replies “Like a glove”
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A man – Baltasar Gracian
“At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, and at eighty nothing.”
– Baltasar Gracian
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We need each other – Patch Adams
“We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other. There is no question in my mind that there is nothing else in life, really, than friendship.”
– Patch Adams
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We know too much – Bertrand Russell
“We know too much and feel too little.”
– Bertrand Russell
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Bitterness – Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.”
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Good corn – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson