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"Life begins on the other side of despair."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
“Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.”
- May Sarton
- May Sarton
“You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."
- Edward Abbey
- Edward Abbey
“Only time can heal what reason cannot.”
- Seneca
- Seneca
“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
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
- Mary Shelley
- Mary Shelley
“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
“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
“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.”
- Anaïs Nin
- Anaïs Nin
“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
“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
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
- John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck
“Be curious, not judgmental.”
- Walt Whitman
- Walt Whitman
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
- Carl Jung
- Carl Jung
“Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.”
- Émilie Du Châtelet
- Émilie Du Châtelet
“Feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
- Jane Austen
- Jane Austen
“By your stumbling, the world is perfected.”
- Sri Aurobindo
- Sri Aurobindo
“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint.”
- Jane Austen
- Jane Austen
"Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion."
- Barry Lopez
- Barry Lopez
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