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I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life. ↗

— Joseph Heller

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This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet? ↗

— Abraham Verghese

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consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late ↗

— Alexandra Potter

#wants #wishes #life

Some people believe that holding on and hanging there are signs of strength, but there are times in life when it takes much more strength just to let go. ↗

— Ann Landers

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What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing exept his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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The sweetest part of being a couple was sharing your life with someone else. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

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Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black. ↗

— Peter Watts

#stars #life

حرية التعبير فَرْضُ عين حضاري .. فحتى الشيطان الذي رفض النزول عند أمر ربّه لم يُرمَ في النار مباشرة بل أُنظرَ إلى يوم يبعثون ↗

— ياسر حارب

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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period ↗

— Alice Walker

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The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me. ↗

— Lee Child

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