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“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit”
― E.E. Cummings

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

"We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds."--Carlos Castaneda

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“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up.. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is.”
—Emil Cioran

"The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance."--C.G. Jung

“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”---Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."
•Napoleon Bonaparte

•Art by :Andrew Wyeth

''You think you know someone. But mostly, you just know what you want to know.'' - Joe Hill (Stephen King's son, and American writer)

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the disheveled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame"

- William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
― Nikola Tesla

Why is there something instead of something?

“Nothingness, after all, is simpler than any one particular existing thing ever could be; there is only one nothing, and many kinds of something.”
― Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself