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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#comfort #despair #either #end #find

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#corner #forest #go #others #sometimes

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#back #become #does #enough #fights

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#completely #cut #find #happiness #only

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ↗

— Plato

#another #back #becomes #every #every heart

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#coming #course #having #insist #mind

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#become #go #i #i am #let go

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#company #desires #literature #longings #beauty

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#einstein #nature #philosophy #beauty

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#compassion #heartwarming #love #pg- #beauty