What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThree o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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We are our choices.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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