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“Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.”
― Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn

“you wanted it all to make sense
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer is simple.
just be.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you."---Robert Anton Wilson

"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone."---Henry Rollins

“Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

"Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.

As the wind loves to call things to dance,
May your gravity by lightened by grace.

Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,
May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.

As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.

As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,
May your sense of irony bring perspective.

As time remains free of all that it frames,
May your mind stay clear of all it names."---

John O'Donohue, "Anam Cara"

“The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing creeps back into its own nature within the shelter of the dark. Darkness is the ancient womb. Nighttime is womb-time. Our souls come out to play. The darkness absolves everything; the struggle for identity and impression falls away. We rest in the night.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi