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I was always of the mindset that whatever will be, will be. We can only just try to control our own lives, that because our lives are so hopelessly entangled in the choices of others, we can never have full control over our destiny or fate or purpose or whatever you want to call it. The choices we make define us, of course, but so do the choices of everyone around us whether we know them or not. Instead of contemplating what-if scenarios, I always just tried to accept things. ↗

— David Bowick

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The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat. The eggs the May fly leaves hatch after the parent has died. What is it all about. What's the point? There is no point. That's just the way it is. It is neither good nor bad. Life is mainly simply inevitable. (41) ↗

— Sheldon B. Kopp

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In no man's land, alien is the queen. ↗

— Toba Beta

#land #life #man #queen #truth

The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive. ↗

— Toba Beta

#instinct #life #spirit #survival-of-the-fittest #life

Life is all about how you handle plan B ↗

— Suzy Toronto

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One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#life #work #life

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#life #saturn #life

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance. ↗

— George Eliot

#father-and-son #life

When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel. ↗

— Eloise Ristad

#eloise-ristad #failure #life #success #life

Security and safety were the reward of dullness. ↗

— Hanif Kureishi

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