A Curated Collection

"I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them." – Virginia Woolf

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“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”

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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.

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"The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes."

Franz Kafka

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Understanding is love's other name.

Thich Naht Hanh

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Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

C.G. Jung

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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

Albert Camus

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We are the authors of our own destiny; and being the authors, we are ultimately, perhaps frighteningly, free.

Santideva, The Way of the Bodhisattva

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A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on its own wings.

Charlie Wardle

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All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back.

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Jorge Luis Borges

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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anaïs Nin

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All roads lead to you, even those I took to forget you.

Mahmoud Darwish

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Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.

Vincent Van Gogh

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If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent van Gogh

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to experience.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Don’t be a storehouse of memories. Leave past, future and even present thoughts behind. Be a witness to life unfolding by itself. Be free of all attachments, fears and concerns by keeping your mind inside your own heart. Rest in being. Like this, your life is always fresh and imbued with pure joy and timeless presence. Be happy, wise and free.

Mooji