human experience
🤍 being human is not static
human experience
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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.
Stanislaw Lem • Solaris
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Just the words I think I prefer. . . . #poetry#fall#death
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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.
Maria Popova • The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness
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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.
Alain de Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education
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an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness
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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.
cheryl strayed • Brave Enough
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