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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. ―A.A. Milne

You must learn one thing: the world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. —David Whyte

Hurt people hurt people. -- Cecelia Ahern, The Year I Met You

"It's not time to worry yet." -- 'I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. 'Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus an laugh my head off.' 'You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' 'Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks...' -- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. [...] What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? ~ George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

There are always difficult judgment calls about how much oxygen you give to people who are being truly absurd. ~ Julia Gillard

how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. ~ anne dillard things take the time they take. don't worry. ~ mary oliver

Life is a very bad novelist

Do not allow me to forget you. -- Marquez, Of Love and Other Demons

The past is just a story we tell ourselves. -- Samantha, Her

What other people think of me is none of my business. -- Wayne Dyer

There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind. -- Beckett

The greatest gift you can give someone is the space to be his or her self, without the threat of you leaving. -- Kai, Lessons in Life #39 Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape. -- Bell Hooks

I'm constantly surrounded by ghosts of all my parallel possibilities -- The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. -- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"The whole future lies in uncertainty. Live immediately." - Seneca

"A lot of life is wasted worry." - Ethan Hawke

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

You have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you; too far, and they abandon you. -- Hanif Kureishi

Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. -- George Orwell, 1984