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To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#creativity #fear-of-failure #life

Find then follow the path that enables you to live the life you want to live. Don't be blow by the winds of fate. Don't be a creation of circumstances. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#creation #enable #fate #life #live

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. ↗

— Max Ehrmann

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You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#daylight #individuation #maturity #philosophy-of-life #psychology

I was fourteen then. He was eighteen. Everything is biographical, Lucien Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#philosophy #sentiment #life

Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#humour #life #life

I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#gareth-st-clair #hyacinth-bridgerton #it-s-in-his-kiss #julia-quinn #life

People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#life #people #routine #rules #space

What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#life-lessons #life

Contentment and Happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#life