Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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