“All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

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We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.

Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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And you?
When will you 
begin that long journey
into yourself?

Rumi

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“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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My desire to learn caught fire once adults stopped forcing me to sit in a classroom.

- David Perrel

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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills.

But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

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Rebellion is as much of a cage as obedience is. They both mean living in reaction to someone else’s way instead of forging your own. Freedom is not being for or against an ideal, but creating your own existence from scratch.

Glennon Doyle, Untamed


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So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. —Maya Angelou

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Something else is hurting you—that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.

— Charles Bukowski

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I wonder how much of what weighs me down is not mine to carry.

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“But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life – find the knot – untangle it.”

— Martha Ostenso

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It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Tish is sensitive, and that is her superpower. The opposite of sensitive is not brave. It’s not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know and imagine. The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that’s no badge of honor.

Glennon Doyle, Untamed

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