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“A doctor, lawyer, accountant, dentist, or pharmacist will go through years of training and then do the same thing over and over again in slightly different variations. Much of the training is to socialize us into people who can sit still for long periods and behave and operate consistently and reliably....Basically, we are being trained and prepped to become more like machines. But we'll never be as good as the real thing.”
― Andrew Yang
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“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
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“It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. ”
― Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.” -

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in a radiant moistness. Opalescent on the surface but translucent in her depths…”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Enchanter
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