“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
– Hilary Mantel
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“The only person that has to live with you is yourself, so speak the truths that allow you to feel good and look at yourself in the mirror. The truth may not set you free, but it will teach you a whole lot about the cages your in.”
– Kanwer Singh (Humble The Poet)
“‘Single’ and ‘Relationship’ are just titles. Your heart determines your true relationship status.”
– Unknown
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Dig – Matisyahu
“I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.”
– Matisyahu
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
– Mark Twain
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.”
– Malcolm X
“Is a mountain heavy? It may be heavy in and of itself, but as long as we don’t try to lift it up, it won’t be heavy for us.”
– Ajaan Suwat
“A wedding is a funeral for your former friendships.”
– Unknown
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Alternative medicine – Tim Minchin
“Do you know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? Medicine.”
-Tim Minchin
“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
– Cicero
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Symbols – Alan Watts
“Civilization, comprising all the achievements of art and science, technology and industry, is the result of man’s invention and manipulation of symbols – of words, letters, numbers, formulas and concepts, and of such social institutions as universally accepted clocks and rulers, scales and timetables, schedules and laws. By these means, we measure, predict, and control the behavior of the human and natural worlds – and with such startling apparent success that the trick goes to our heads. All too easily, we confuse the world as we symbolize it with the world as it is.”
– Alan Watts
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.”
– Maya Angelou
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Character – Japanese proverb
“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”
– Japanese proverb
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Benefit – @TheTweetOfGod
The entire universe was created for the benefit of those members of one species on one planet who correctly believe in an invisible entity.
– @TheTweetOfGod