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You should not confuse your career with your life. ↗

— Dave Barry

#work #life

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#born #into #kidnapped #like #slavery

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#thoughts #words #experience

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#knowing #life #novel #people #worth

In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#healing #light #spiritual-life #wounds #life

Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#futility #hopelessness #life #life

She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#love #life

A heart has problems which mind cannot understand. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life #mind #problems #life

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever. ↗

— Ernest Cline

#life

A room without books is like a life without meaning. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#books #life