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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: kindness
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.'

    'Please,' I said.

    And then he did.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, bittersweet, ending, hanya-yanagihara, last-lines, sad, story, the-end
    97 likes

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  • #5
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “What is life for? he asks himself. What is my life for?”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, hanya-yanagihara, life, meaning-of-life, purpose, questioning
    44 likes

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  • #6
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “he feels he isn’t so much living as he is merely existing,”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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  • #7
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “Are you happy? he once asked Jude (they must have been drunk).

    I don't think happiness is for me, Jude had said at last, as if Willem had been offering him a dish he didn't want to eat.

    But it's for you, Willem.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, jude-st-francis, melancholic, willem-and-jude
    98 likes

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    Kelly Moran
    “I look at you and my heart pounds, when for years, I don't think it beat at all. You fill the cracks and crevices, take away the emptiness. And when you're not by my side, the loss is unimaginable.”
    ― Kelly Moran, Exposure
    tags: declarations-of-love, emptiness, loss, love
    61 likes

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  • #9
    “Suicidal pain includes the feeling that one has lost all capacity to effect emotional change. The agony is excruciating and looks as if it will never end. There is the feeling of having been beaten down for a very long time. There are feelings of agitation, emptiness, and incoherence. 'Snap out of it and get on with your life,' sounds like a demand to high jump ten feet.”
    ― David L. Conroy, Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain
    tags: agitation, depression, emptiness, hopelessness, incoherence, snap-out-of-it, suffering, suicidal-pain, suicide
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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  • #12
    Sigmund Freud
    “I think this man is suffering from memories.”
    ― Freud, Sigmund
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.” (p.97)”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
    tags: avoidance, body, feelings, numb, numbness, sense-of-safety, trauma, traumatic, traumatized
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “It is especially challenging for traumatized people to discern when they are actually safe and to be able to activate their defenses when they are in danger.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Feeling out of control, survivors of trauma often begin to fear that they are damaged to the core and beyond redemption.  •”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “I remember him saying: “The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “The traumatic event itself, however horrendous, had a beginning, a middle, and an end, but I now saw that flashbacks could be even worse. You never know when you will be assaulted by them again and you have no way of telling when they will stop.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Long after the actual event has passed, the brain may keep sending signals to the body to escape a threat that no longer exists.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Prior to the advent of brain, there was no color and no sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling or emotion. Before brains the universe was also free of pain and anxiety. —Roger Sperry1”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves,”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Being traumatized is not just an issue of being stuck in the past; it is just as much a problem of not being fully alive in the present.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “One of the hardest things for traumatized people is to confront their shame about the way they behaved during a traumatic episode,”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Communicating fully is the opposite of being traumatized.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Sigmund Freud had said about trauma in 1895: “I think this man is suffering from memories.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Traumatized people are terrified to feel deeply. They are afraid to experience their emotions, because emotions lead to loss of control.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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  • #27
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “When reason fails, the devil helps!”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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  • #29
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: crime, punishment
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  • #30
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: self-realization
    2155 likes



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