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''For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.'' -- Aristotle

“Every friendship needs at least one argument to see how stable it is.” - Unknown

Many people think it’s a bad sign if you disagree, debate or face conflict in friendships/relationships but I believe the opposite. I’m not a fan of conflict for sure lol, but it teaches you how to find common ground.

“What you need, what we all need, is silence. Stop the noise in your mind in order for the wondrous sounds of life to be heard.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”
― May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

''If you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself. Something to repair tears in your community. Something to make life a little better for people, less fortunate than you. That's what I think. A meaningful life is not living for one's self, but for one's community.'' - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

''Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.'' - W.B. Yeats

“What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.”
― Sam Harris

''It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.'' - Oscar Wilde

"Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth

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“In the infinite dark cosmos, a tiny ball called Earth is floating. Its surface is occupied by even tinier creatures called 'human beings', who wear fancy clothes and speak big words."---Shunya

“Be in your own skin, as an act of self-loving.”
― H. Raven Rose, Shadow Selves: Double Happiness