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Quotes by Swedish Authors
"Life is really very simple. In each moment, we have the opportunity to choose between saying "yes or "no, to listen to our intuition, to listen to our true inner voice, the Existential voice within ourselves. When we say "yes, we have contact with Existence and we receive nourishment, love, joy, support and inspiration. When we say "no, we create a separation from life and begin to create dreams and expectations of how it should be. We begin to live in the memories of the past and in the fantasies of the future " as if any other time than here and now really could make us happy and satisfied."
"We all have skeletons in our closets, but if you see someone who still loves you despite knowing about them, then that person is a true friend."
"Be careful what you wish for. Especially out loud."
"Doors close. That's life, but they don't necessarily have to hit my nose, and leave me hanging and shocked every time they do."
"Moving islands in the ocean of sky.Beautiful white curtains in the sky,Veiling and unveiling portions, as time passes by.I watch clouds, when my mind feels clouded."
"Maybe that was why the French called orgasms "las petites morts: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug."
"Education, possessions, or people cannot replace passion, but they are given meaning by your passion in life."
"Your destiny is shaped in your moments of decision."
"What inspires you to do what you do is the reason why you persist, even in the face of trouble."
"Despite 2000 years of evolution in modern times, we have still not managed to develop the intelligence to create a society that knows what love is. Our society is still not a civilization, it is still primitive and barbaric."
"Thoughts can be such slippery things sometimes,Very hard to handle.But to a well-trained mind,They are easy to bind."
"Why do you wake up in the morning?"
"One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed."
"It is us who change. We grow stronger, and the problems appear less imposing."
"Acceptance.Good and bad,Fortune and misfortune,Pleasure and pain,I want it all,Because it's mine."
"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
"Knowing and doing are two separate things, and don't always sync up in life."
"Persistence is key when you want to achieve. You can't afford to quit just because you don't feel good about failure."
"In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are. In the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is perfect as it is."
"Words are more forgettable, but the emotional effects they have on the person hearing them stay engraved in his or her memory."
"When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words."
"When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open."
"In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on."
"A story unwritten is without beginning or end. But in its potential lies another story; and in the heartbeat before pen meets page, both stories exist at once, reflecting endless permutations of the other, before one of them disappears forever."
"Some things are not supposed to be forgotten, these are the things which make us human."
"The hardest part about moving on is - not looking back."
"Idleness is seductive.Just relax and do nothing, it says."
"I'm alive now, but I don't know if I will be tomorrow. The state of being alive is not guaranteed, but should I let that stop me from living?"
"At first you might wonder what you did to deserve such treatment. Nothing, probably, so that doesn't matter. What matters is that, eventually, the abuse becomes the status quo. It's no longer about the whats and whys ("what did I do? "why are they doing this?) but the whens and hows ("when are they going to do it? "how are they going to get me?). Persecution becomes inevitable, inescapable. And once you get into the victim mindset, you're fucked. The bullies don't even need to hurt you now; your poor, warped, pathetic brain is doing half the work for them."
"We are basically all one. We are one being, one consciousness, one whole. We are all connected to each other. We are all parts of the same whole. How we treat others are how we treat ourselves. If we treat others badly, we are really treating ourselves badly. If we hate others, we are really hating ourselves. If we love others, we are basically loving ourselves."
"I was 9 years old when I had my first glimpse of wholeness. It was early Christmas morning and I was standing in my pajamas in the living room and looked out of the large windows. Outside the white snow flakes silently singled down toward a snowclad landscape. Suddenly I was filled with a feeling of being one with the slowly dancing snowflakes, one with the silent landscape. I did not understand then that this was my first taste of meditation, but it created a deep thirst and a longing in my heart to return to this natural and effortless experience of being one with the Whole."
"In calmness of mind is greatness."
"Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously."
"Love is the strongest force there is. There is no stronger healing power than love. Love is pure magic. Love transforms people without really does anything. The mere presence of love transforms people. There is nothing more holy than love since love makes people whole."
"By not making your own choices, you give up power to change your life."
"It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me."
"Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own."
"Action gives a decision power and finality."
"Mámá had always made it clear she believed girls who got raped deserved it. I hadn't done any of the things she said 'bad girls did,' though. I didn't parade myself around in sluttish clothes and make untoward advances. But Mámá had been wrong about everything else so far, so maybe she'd been wrong about that, too. Maybe it didn't matter whether you were bad or good, prudish or wanton: maybe just being female was enough, for some men. Maybe, like so much else, it was only about control. But then why do I feel so guilty?"
"That's not cruel. This is. You come here in the middle of the night, expecting me to be awake, and ask-no, demand-me to give you things that belong to me as much as they belong to you. Never mind what it does to me. Never mind that each time I see you, I wonder if I'll ever hold you in my arms again, or be able to touch you without you cringing away like I'm a monster. I think it's fair to ask if there's an 'us,' my dear, because I suspect you're trying to use me just now. Tell me that's not cruel, and I'll let you go."
"Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter."
"Certain aspects of dying are still a mystery to me now, but as I grow and study life more, the end of my life becomes more of a certain truth."
"You were a well-respected agent, Michael, a rags-to-riches fairytale ending. Until you became disgraced. Now it appears your own organization wishes to be rid of you. Why is this?"My gun turned back into a pumpkin."
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