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☯ Everything that touches me in any kind of way.  

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ZSA ZSA

in lavender

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How much should I be aware of the world outside, and how much should I focus on my inner world?

Haruki Murakami

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Today is a dark day. I’m still in disbelief. I never thought it would really come to this. The only light I see is how many people around me seem as devestated by it as I am. This provides a feeling of belonging and togetherness.  So I want to lift my spirits with a song I feel is very suited for this occasion. And I try to believe that love, intelligence, empathy and understanding will always win in the end. And I pray that there will be no less peace in the world than there is right now. 

You live in the same world as I do But somehow I never noticed You before today I'm ashamed to say If I weren't afraid you'd laugh at me I would run and take all your hands And I'd gather everyone together for a day And when we gather'd I'll pass buttons out that say Beautiful people Then you'd never have to be alone 'Cause there'll always be someone With the same button on as you Beautiful people You ride the same subway As I do ev'ry morning That's got to tell you something We've got so much in common I go the same direction that you do So if you take care of me Maybe I'll take care of you

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Hometown Urbex #myownstuff (bij Turnhout)

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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

Alain de Botton

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While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not so much to own what we find beautiful as to lay permanent claim to the inner qualities it embodies. Owning such an object may help us realise our ambition of absorbing the virtues to which it alludes, but we ought not to presume that those virtues will automatically or effortlessly begin to rub off on us through tenure. Endeavouring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love. What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Alain de Botton

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A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

Alain de Botton

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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Alain de Botton

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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

Alain de Botton

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There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's a bit heavy,' or 'Eew, disgusting.' And literature is a place where that stuff goes; where people whisper to each other across books, the writer to the reader. I think that stops you feeling lonely – in the deeper sense, lonely.

Alain de Botton

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To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could

Alain de Botton

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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease

Alain de Botton

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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on

Alain de Botton

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My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

Alain de Botton

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