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Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. ↗

— Goethe

#life

But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#life

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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You love life because life's all there is. ↗

— Glen Duncan

#life

Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too. ↗

— Anne Fortier

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I swear by my life and my love of it that I shall not live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Hope is believing in something that eludes you. It's a desperate feeling in a desperate situation. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

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I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself. ↗

— Cory Monteith

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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications. ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

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