All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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| — | Samuel Butler |
Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
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| — | Albert Einstein |
Give up yourself and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.
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| — | C.S. Lewis (via explodethesun) |
Success is a matter of making each failure a new starting point.
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| — | Ralph Marston (via thelittleyellowdiary) |
I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I’m sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I’m sure that is entirely wrong.
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| — | Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes) |
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
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| — | Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes) |
I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
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| — | David Bowie (via quote-book) |
If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.
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| — | Chuck Palahniuk (via cobwebsandapplecores) |
People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn’t seen some of it.
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| — | George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin |
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~ Anais Nin
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.
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| — | C.S. Lewis | via feerawr-me (via quote-book) |
Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
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| — | Friedrich Nietzsche (via thespeedofsight) |
