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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

“There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Everything depends on upbringing. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”
― Dostoyevsky Fyodor

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“We are our choices.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
― William Blake

“Wherever you go, there you are”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For thir souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness.
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
― Kahlil Gibran