human experience
- We are all Frankenstein monsters—patchwork quilts of past experiences—trying to pass ourselves off as whole and cohesive things.
from Effort by Ava
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The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way.
from Brave Enough by cheryl strayed
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Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind alleys, well shafts, dark barricaded doors.
from Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
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- Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’ve ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.
from The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness by Maria Popova
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an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching
from Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
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- Those who wounded us were not superior, impressive beings who knew our special weaknesses and justly targeted them. They were themselves highly frantic, damaged creatures trying their best to cope with the litany of private sorrows to which every life condemns us.
from The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
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