No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThere’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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