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Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#life #present #sleep #waking-up #life

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#bullet #life

But we all make mistakes. It’s how we fix them that makes us who we are. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#mistake #life

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#every #life #measure #sometimes #sorrow

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example. ↗

— Big Sean

#back #brag #example #following #graduated

You don't look fake when you unconsciously pretend. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #pretend #unconscious #life

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt. ↗

— Toba Beta

#doubt #facts #lies #life #receptive

That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though. ↗

— Jane Green

#broken-heart #life

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#depression #fear #life #speaking #words