"Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel standing on the third step of a stepladder trying to put millet in the bird feeder."

Emotion, Fear, Anxiety, Life, Struggle

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"Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel standing on the third step of a stepladder trying to put millet in the bird feeder."

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"Causes for attachment are created at the very time abhorrence occurs. Familiarity (acquaintance) up to a certain point will result in attachment and if it reaches 'ridge point' & goes past further, it will result in abhorrence."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"I can hear your angered silence,Taste your bitterness.Now I smell your vengeance,Yet see your lonely emptiness.I am your broken heart."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Emotion, Anger, Silence, Heart

"The fears we keep alive, will be a recurring haunt until it dies, or we do."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"Jealousy is love in competition."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Emotion, Truth, Inspirational, Power, Wisdom

"Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning.""Thank you." I said primly. Then, I considered. "Can vipers be rabid?""I don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse than vipers, though.""Canadian geese are deadlier than vipers?""You ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More suffering.""Wow. I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought about all of this."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Emotion, Anger, Humor, Animals, Suffering

"You want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Emotion, Change, Feelings, Resentment

"It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Emotion, Depth, Feeling, Mind

"I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Emotion, Anxiety, Aspiration, Self, Reflection

"And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Emotion, Pain, Happiness, Choice, Desire

"Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth.""You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Emotion, Truth, Regret, Love, Today

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"If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown."

Nature, Growth, Stability, Symbolism

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

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"You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river's relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identity. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been."

Philosophy, Change, Home, Time

"They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they (...) become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls."

Spiritual, Mortality, Magic, Death, Afterlife

"Was he leaving home, or going home?"

Life, Home, Journey, Change

"I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me."

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"And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life."

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"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."

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"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."

Kids, Suicide, Want, Writing