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“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”
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“Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.”

“To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out, to become speedily found when they are lost. But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honour what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness.”

“People are strange, they neither wish to live nor die.”

“Nobody wants to love. Everybody wants to be loved.”

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed. ”

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”

“If a person has no hope, he is truly blessed because that person has no fear of failure.”

“Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.”

“Hell is truth seen too late.”

“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

“Do not love half lovers
Do not entertain half friends
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
Do not silence yourself to say something
And do not speak to be silent
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half the way will get you no where
Half an idea will bear you no results
Half a life is a life you didn't live,
A word you have not said
A smile you postponed
A love you have not had
A friendship you did not know
The half is a mere moment of inability
but you are able for you are not half a being
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life.”

“My anxiety and I have what some people might call a "friends with benefits relationship".
We have no love for each other but she … fucks with me sometimes.”

“Every decision for something is a decision against something.”

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

“Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less”

“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.”