#life

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others. ↗

— George Eliot

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What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound. ↗

— Richard Pryor

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To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown. ↗

— Karen Horney

#psychoanalysis #life

I'm simply acting according to my current circumstance." Logan blew a smoke ring, scenting the air with tobacco and cloves. "I thought prisoners were always granted a cigarette before their execution. And since you all keep threatening to kill me, I believe I should always have this small luxury afforded to me as long as my life is a risk. Don't you? ↗

— Andrea Cremer

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It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror. ↗

— Jean Lorrain

#horror #life #reality #terror #ugly

I guess the message in the songs is that is shouldn't matter if someone moves differently, or looks differently, or talks differently. Is biotic differently. What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere. ↗

— Daniel Waters

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One life is an absurdly small allowance. ↗

— Freya Stark

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I'm the one who will never let you die. And that's more, Ms. Lane, than anyone in your life has ever been able to say to you. ↗

— jericho barrons

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The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

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