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Magical Realist Offline Aug 19, 2018 05:49 PM
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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Secular Sanity Offline Aug 21, 2018 10:39 PM
I liked that one, MR.  Too funny! Big Grin


"A human being hardly ever thinks about other people. He contemplates fantasms which resemble them and which he has decked out for his own purposes."—Iris Murdoch
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Magical Realist Offline Aug 22, 2018 02:24 PM
“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
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Magical Realist Offline Aug 23, 2018 06:47 PM
“No beating yourself up. That’s not allowed. Be patient with yourself. It took you years to form the bad habits of thought that you no longer want. It will take a little time to form new and better ones. But I promise you this: Even a slight move in this direction will bring you some peace. The more effort you apply to it, the faster you’ll find your bliss, but you’ll experience rewards immediately.”
― Holly Mosier
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Magical Realist Offline Aug 24, 2018 08:15 PM (This post was last modified: Aug 24, 2018 08:28 PM by Magical Realist.)
“It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.”
― Charles de Lint


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Magical Realist Offline Aug 27, 2018 12:41 AM (This post was last modified: Aug 27, 2018 12:42 AM by Magical Realist.)
“There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down


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Magical Realist Offline Aug 27, 2018 03:51 PM
“How strange it was to be inside a machine again! All his life he’d been inside machines, whether he realised it or not. Modern houses were machines. Shopping centres were machines. Schools. Cars. Trains. Cities. They were all sophisticated technological constructs, wired up with lights and motors. You switched them on, and didn’t spare them a thought while they pampered you with unnatural services.”
― Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things
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