Deep Thoughts
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
— Søren Kierkegaard
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Forever is composed of nows.
—Emily Dickinson
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
—Corrie ten Boom
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You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
— Robin Williams
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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
—Lu Xun
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We are poor indeed if we are only sane.
—D. W. Winnicott (English Psychoanalyst)
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
—Queen Elizabeth II
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“books were no longer the sacred touchstones of any culture, any society, and surely not of the one in which he and Paola lived. When had he last heard a reference to a book as part of normal conversation? When had he last heard a character from a book–much less from a classic–used as a measure of good or bad for human behaviour? Harry Potter had p... See more
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Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union.
— Kent Nerburn
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All political parties “shout that they want to shape a better future, but it’s not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it. We want to be masters of the future only for the power to ch
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