#live

The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Live. How many of us need to be reminded that living has nothing to do with trying to be as good as someone else, or trying to fit into some category, or filling in the blanks on some stupid checklist. That it has nothing to do with punishing yourself for past mistakes. ↗

— Suzanne Selfors

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I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#live-life #life

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#dead #frankenstein #life #life

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up. ↗

— Regina Brett

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I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autism #oliver-sacks #life

Life is a purposeful action. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychology #psychotherapy #spirituality #waiting-to-live #life

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself. ↗

— John Flanagan

#ranger-s-apprentice #saving-lives #life