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The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl. -In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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The story was clearly over, as in juggling when the ball you throw up finds the moment to come down, hesitates as if it might not, and then drops at the same speed of that celestial light. And life is no longer good but just what you happen to be holding. ↗

— E.L. Doctorow

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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. ↗

— Yann Martel

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You can think all you can but don't publicize all your thoughts ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#thoughts #life

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life-and-living #life

-Speaking about Vaccinations - "If you accept the truth after the fact, the pain will last a life time. ↗

— Richard Diaz

#illness #vaccination #vaccine #life

The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter. ↗

— Graham Greene

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He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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I can't help but think about things critically. Sometimes it can be a curse. What I wouldn't give every once in a while to be a blithering idiot skipping through life with shit in my pants like it's a goddamned party. ↗

— Justin Halpern

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. ↗

— Wally 'Famous' Amos

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