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Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. ↗

— Joan Didion

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If death petrifies you, do something to ensure your likeness will survive in more than just photographs. Drown yourself in a swamp. ↗

— Bauvard

#fossils #funny #humor #death

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#positivity #life

If you can't hold on, hold on ↗

— The Killers

#music #life

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. ↗

— George Eliot

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If you own this story you get to write the ending. ↗

— Brené Brown

#personal-responsibility #self #story #taking-ownership #life

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life-lesson #psychology #life

There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#edna-pontellier #fiction #romance #life

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#simplicity #life

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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