We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHe thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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