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“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
― Truman Capote, Answered Prayers

“When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at your side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Emperor's Three Questions

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”
― Ashley Montagu

“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”
― Voltaire

“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
― Ted Chiang, Exhalation

“It'll be when you first learn to walk that I get daily demonstrations of the asymmetry in our relationship. You'll be incessantly running off somewhere, and each time you walk into a door frame or scrape your knee, the pain feels like it's my own. It'll be like growing an errant limb, an extension of myself whose sensory nerves report pain just fine, but whose motor nerves don't convey my commands at all. It's so unfair: I'm going to give birth to an animated voodoo doll of myself. I didn't see this in the contract when I signed up. Was this part of the deal?”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I shed my guilt when I accepted my decision on its own terms, without endlessly prosecuting old grievances, without weighing his sins against mine. Without thinking of my father at all. I learned to accept my decision for my own sake, because of me, not because of him. Because I needed it, not because he deserved it.”
― Tara Westover , Educated

“Truth is like poetry.
And most people fucking hate poetry.”
― Adam McKay, The Big Short: A Screenplay

“But facing a dragon does not mean swaggering up to it unarmed and insulting its mom.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Zudem spürt man bei Roger: Er ist gern da. Er sieht seine Präsenz nichteinfach als Termin, den er abarbeiten muss. Er muss in seinem Leben oft Nein sagen. Aber wenn er Ja sagt, ist er voll dabei, dann macht er keine halbenSachen und muss nebenbei nicht noch etwas anderes erledigen.”
― Luki Frieden

“Illness is a story told in the past tense.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“History is merely a list of surprises,' I said. 'It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.”
― kurt vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

“Nadal did not just embrace the moment. He gave it a bear hug and lifted it off the ground with its heels kicking.”
― Clarey, Christopher

“Nadal did not just embrace the moment. He gave it a bear hug and lifted it off the ground with its heels kicking.”
― Christopher Clarey, The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer