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"Life begins on the other side of despair."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
“Be curious, not judgmental.”
- Walt Whitman
- Walt Whitman
“You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."
- Edward Abbey
- Edward Abbey
“I no longer tolerate connections that require me to abandon myself. And I no longer mistake numbness for peace.”
- Cheryl Burke
- Cheryl Burke
“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
- Anaïs Nin
- Anaïs Nin
“Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.”
- May Sarton
- May Sarton
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
- Mary Shelley
- Mary Shelley
“Only time can heal what reason cannot.”
- Seneca
- Seneca
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou
“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
- Eric Roth
- Eric Roth
“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”
- Anaïs Nin
- Anaïs Nin
“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
- Rumi
- Rumi
“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
- Joseph Campbell
- Joseph Campbell
“You are allowed to live a life some people don’t understand.”
- Laura McKowen
- Laura McKowen
“Feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
“The only way out is through.”
- Robert Frost
- Robert Frost
“Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
- Rumi
- Rumi
"Love truth, but pardon error."
- Voltaire
- Voltaire
“Sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness.”
- Galway Kinnell
- Galway Kinnell
“Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.”
- Brené Brown
- Brené Brown
"Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jean-Paul Sartre
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
- John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck
“I will not give up the flowers in my heart just because the world is a hard place. The world is only a hard place because it needs more flower-hearted people.”
- Nikita Gill
- Nikita Gill
“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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