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Swati

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Swati’s Quotes

“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”
― Pema Chodron

tags: buddhism, shambhala

785 likes

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

341 likes

“Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it.”
― Janosch

tags: love, meaning-of-life, world

39 likes

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

3087 likes

“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

1928 likes

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