Neurotic Wandering Mind

The running conversations in our head

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The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.

(from Carolyn Forché's The Country Between Us)

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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Charles Dickens

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The most underrated act of kindness is letting people be. Let them mispronounce a word, talk too much about a show they love, or get excited about something you don't understand. Everyone got something that lights them up. Let them shine, even if it's not your thing.

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I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov

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The cruelest distance was never between two places. It was between what you feel and what you show.

- Subh

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A wise woman once said, "you are capable of twice as much as you think and ten times as much as your mother thinks" and honestly I think about that a lot whenever a wave of doubt rushes over me telling me that I can't do it.

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Being human has been a largely humiliating experience.

Buddy Wakefield

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Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.

Ghassan Kanafani

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There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

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What a strange life! An evening refuses to pass, yet the years are slipping by effortlessly.

Mirza Ghalib

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You have a touch of grace and damnation and beauty that the world should try to preserve.

Charles Bukowski

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In this terrifying world you continuously have the power to offer someone else a little relief. Why would you withhold that-do you remember what a little relief feels like? It feels like a lot.

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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but lam not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.

Richard P. Feynman

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Someone once told me I can be as sad as I want just make sure I'm still doing things and that has changed the way I view everything. I'm like it's fine that I'm sad right now but let me go be sad at hot yoga and be sad while I'm taking my vitamins and be sad while I'm learning ceramics and while I'm completing my tasks. This might sound depressing but for me it's so elevating. Because I know in like December, for example, I will be able to look at how much l've expanded myself and it won't matter that I was sad in November because sadness doesn't stick. It's what you do that shapes your life. And I kept doing things. And I shaped my life.

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Be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Some men are not capable of learning anything that does not agree with their own opinions.

Rachel Neumeier

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We are all more than the sum of our sins.

Jeaniene Frost