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Life is nothing how he expected it would be when he was young and living under the delusion that things could be controlled. Nothing can be controlled. Only endured.
“Apparently thousands of people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s, even though he lived until 2013.”
“I think balance is for people who don’t know why they’re here.”
It is evident the mind does not know things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them.’”
“Time is an illusion, a construct made out of human memory. There’s no such thing as the past, the present, or the future. It’s all happening now.”
We are homesick most for the places we have never known. — CARSON MCCULLERS
‘Now’ is just an illusion, an accident of how our brains process reality.”
“Our minds aren’t built to handle a reality that’s constantly changing our memories and shifting our present,”
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. — RAY CUMMINGS
How about being locked in our little fishbowls, in this joke of an existence imposed on us by the limits of our primate senses? Life is suffering. But it doesn’t have to be.
What you’re defending isn’t reality—it’s a prison, a lie.”
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. — GEORGE ORWELL, 1984
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. — SØREN KIERKEGAARD
