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"It was so quiet, I could hear my own breathing, loud in my ears. Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."
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"Sometimes you should ask yourself if the world would be a better place without your existence, then you would know if you are on the right path or not."
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Personal Development
"Darkness always causes fear and chaos inside us. We are always scared of losing ourselves somewhere inside there. But some of us get so much used to it that we start feeling peaceful in there and we start spending more time in it. One weird thing about darkness is, we meet ourselves there. Who are very different from what we are. And once we start speaking with them we become addicted to that kind of conversations. We fall in love with the same thing that we tried to run away from out whole life."
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Personal Development
"I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot."
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Personal Development
"I fear I am beyond your comprehension."
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Personal Development
"My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think."
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Personal Development
"Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy."
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Personal Development
"Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks."
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Personal Development
"I shut my eyes in order to see."
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Personal Development
"When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me?"
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Personal Development
"All answers that you seek can only be found within."
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"This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don't jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going."
Relationship
"But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear."
Truth
"What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive."
Life
"I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents' attention was to disappoint them or fail. But by the time I finally realized that, succeeding was already a habit too ingrained to break."
Childhood
"But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them."
Wisdom
"Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth."
Honesty
"As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship."
Friendship
"I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. "Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste." "Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself."
Healing
"Shit," Delia said. "I mean, shoot. No, actually, I mean shit. I really do."
Humor
"It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are."
Family
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