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“If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
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“Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.”
― The Mortgaged Heart
― The Mortgaged Heart
“He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.”
― Local Girls
― Local Girls
“He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds himself, never comes up against his own reality.”
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“We can be walking around in this world, with bits and pieces of our souls scattered in different time loops and space cracks. You feel like you are always looking for yourself, because you actually are always looking for yourself! You're always looking for those bits and pieces of you. You've got to sit down and remember where you left them at. You've got to quiet the noise and go back to those loops in time and cracks in space that you forgot about and you need to understand yourself in those moments, and embrace yourself. And maybe even embrace those who were around you, with you. That's how you get those pieces back, that's how you sew them back into you.”
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“And in touching your own nothingness, in not feeling your permanent base, in not reaching your own infinity, still less your own eternity, you will have a whole-hearted pity for yourself, and you will burn with a sorrowful love for yourself--a love that will consume your so-called self-love, which is merely a species of sensual self-delectation, the self-enjoyment, as it were, of the flesh of your soul.”
― Tragic Sense of Life
― Tragic Sense of Life
“Stop trying to find yourself. You’ve had it all along.
Never feel ashamed for feeling different; different is the new normal.”
― Quiet Confidence: Breaking Up With Shyness
Never feel ashamed for feeling different; different is the new normal.”
― Quiet Confidence: Breaking Up With Shyness
“The way it begins...
It is never the way it ends
No gods or destiny...
Has your life written beforehand
Everyone's journey...
Is to balance their Yin and Yang
And one will know peace...
The moment one can.”
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It is never the way it ends
No gods or destiny...
Has your life written beforehand
Everyone's journey...
Is to balance their Yin and Yang
And one will know peace...
The moment one can.”
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“The woman hangs from the 13th floor window crying for
the lost beauty of her own life. She sees the
sun falling west over the grey plane of Chicago.
She thinks she remembers listening to her own life
break loose, as she falls from the 13th floor
window on the east side of Chicago, or as she
climbs back up to claim herself again.”
― She Had Some Horses
the lost beauty of her own life. She sees the
sun falling west over the grey plane of Chicago.
She thinks she remembers listening to her own life
break loose, as she falls from the 13th floor
window on the east side of Chicago, or as she
climbs back up to claim herself again.”
― She Had Some Horses
“But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I remember everything that happened that day because it has happened many times in my life. The same innocence, trust, and restlessness, the wonder, fear, and loneliness. How I lost myself. I remember all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. I wished to be found.”
― The Joy Luck Club
― The Joy Luck Club
“An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness and all the lofty promises a blue canary can sing about. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath of the heady morning air. Looking within myself, I searched for the man I once was.”
― Girl Desecrated: Vampires, Asylums and Highlanders 1984
― Girl Desecrated: Vampires, Asylums and Highlanders 1984
“Oh,
Tell the trees;
I need oxygen to live.
Tell them I'm sorry sometimes I don't know how to control the nature in which is inside me”
― Inside My Head: Book of Poetry
Tell the trees;
I need oxygen to live.
Tell them I'm sorry sometimes I don't know how to control the nature in which is inside me”
― Inside My Head: Book of Poetry
“Where was the fear? She searched herself as she listened: sometimes the rat-tat-tat of gunfire, rapid and snippy like the keys of two vast duelling type-writers battering out threats to each other on a paper sky.”
― Blasted Things
― Blasted Things
“In life if you have not done enough to create yourself, you will never be able to find yourself.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Hannah linked her arm in his and he smiled down at her. 'Let's do this.'
Thank you, universe. THANK YOU.
It was in that moment that he felt the page turn and a new chapter in the story of his life begin. Ed knew that the best was to come.”
― Bookishly Ever After
Thank you, universe. THANK YOU.
It was in that moment that he felt the page turn and a new chapter in the story of his life begin. Ed knew that the best was to come.”
― Bookishly Ever After
“No matter where you go, there are cracks in the plaster, nails coming loose, you just have to decide where you want to piece yourself back together. Where the ground feels sturdiest beneath your feet.”
― A History of Wild Places
― A History of Wild Places
“As I heard my name called over and over again---I knew--For The First Time---Who I was----DANCES WITH WOLVES.”
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“Fearlessly being yourself is the best gift you can offer to this world.”
― Rediscovering Joy Seeking God's Presence in Every Moment: 31 Devotions to Strengthen Your Faith and Cultivate a Deeper Relationship with God
― Rediscovering Joy Seeking God's Presence in Every Moment: 31 Devotions to Strengthen Your Faith and Cultivate a Deeper Relationship with God
“Maybe in those moments, you're simply finding yourself again. The person you cling to is the impetus that blasts you open, yet you have this sinking fear that they could be anyone. Regardless, the power of it keeps you from letting go.”
― Dust
― Dust
“Sometimes it seemed Faith saw the parts of him he did his best to hide. But the biggest wonder was that his weaknesses didn't push her away. Instead, she pressed in harder.”
― Rocky Mountain Journey
― Rocky Mountain Journey
“Stop being a seeker and find yourself.”
― A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
― A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
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