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a life a journey a play a sojourn a challenge a gift a curse a chance a choice a recess a struggle a stride a voyage a puddle a stream a sea a pain a pleasure a penance a prayer a sport a search it's all about living in an eternal presence, in the moment, right here and right now. ↗

— Chandrashekar

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She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative away from jaba. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#woman #ybon #life

I guess I could say that I have lived my life in a perpetual flinch. ↗

— Rakesh Satayal

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And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#cancer #life-saver #punk-rock #saved-my-life #life

It isn't very logical to live my life on goundless supposition. I have to assume the truth of the moment is the truth of the future. - Leah ↗

— Jacquelyn Frank

#logical #present-moment #supposition #life

I don't compare life to anything. Life can't be defined or compared, I just know that it dresses itself as a murderer in the end. ↗

— Griselda Salazar

#truth #life

Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms left to rot in the sun. ↗

— James Crumley

#storytelling #life

I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#existence #existentialism #friends #life #life-roles

...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#life #maureen-johnson #proximity #life

Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don’t judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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