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Acceptance is hard. To accept my pain means holding it in my arms, like a package handed to me, my proper burden to be carried. The package may be heavy as lead, or burning hot, or stuck through with razors, but I must concede that it is my package, simply because it has arrived in my life. It is not a mistake. It has not been sent by accident to the wrong person. I may not welcome it, but accepting it means I carry it without protest for as long as necessary — and then I lay it down.

—Jeanne Duprau

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Tolstoy's illness dried him up, burnt something out of him. Inwardly he seemed to become lighter, more transparent, more resigned. His eyes are still keen, his glance piercing. He listens attentively, as though recalling something which he has forgotten, or as though waiting for something new and unknown.

—Maxim Gorky

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A man lives with himself for seventy years, and doesn't know who he is.

—Israel Salanter Lipkin

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I recently invented a new theory: ambitheism. This is the doctrine that God both does and doesn't exist. I have noticed that when I try to believe in God, I am filled with sudden moments of despair that God is absent, but when I try to be an atheist, I slowly come to believe in a divine will. Thus, I have concluded that both ideas are true. God simultaneously is and isn't.

—Michael Gorelick

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A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.

—Robert Johnson

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There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

—Herman Melville

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Man is the only animal who has to be encouraged to live.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

—Abraham Lincoln

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A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

—Jane Caminos

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I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

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You’re the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

—Veronica Roth in The Transfer

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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

—Paulo Coelho

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Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

—Artemus Ward

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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

—Ogden Nash

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There is so much beauty in just existing. In being alive.

—Hannah Harrington in Saving June

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