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Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. ↗

— William Golding

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#metaphysical #spiritual #nature

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Even in the face of powerful structures of domination, it remains possible for each of us, especially those of us who are members of oppressed and/or exploited groups as well as those radical visionaries who may have race, class, and sex privilege, to define and determine alternative standards, to decide on the nature and extent of compromise. ↗

— Bell Hooks

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