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There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street. ↗

— John Paul Warren

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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. ↗

— Richard Bach in "Illusions"

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This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. ↗

— Ken Kesey

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Feelings can have a life of their own and you have very little direct control over them, except perhaps to make them worse. ↗

— Julian Short

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One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness ↗

— Julia Cameron

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You'll be sorry some day. Why don't you ever understand what I'm trying to tell you: it's with your six sense that you're fooled into believing not only that you have six senses, but that you contact an actual outside world with them. If it wasn't for your eyes, you wouldn't see me. If it wasn't for your ears, you wouldn't hear that airplane. If it wasn't for your nose, you wouldn't smell that midnight mint. If it wasn't for your tongue taster, you wouldn't taste the difference between A and B. If it wasn't for your body, you wouldn't feel Princess. There is no me, no airplane, no mind, no Princess, no nothing, you for krissakes do you want to go on being fooled every damn minute of your life? ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil, because the pure spirit of peace can not do killing. ↗

— Toba Beta

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When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. There’s nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed quiet as they listen, certainly burdened . . . but still resting in the knowledge that the life within, the passion for holiness, is indestructible. It needs only to be nourished and released. ↗

— Larry Crabb

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Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself. ↗

— Charles de Lint

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