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#1

“Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: heartbreak, love, mourning

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#2

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

tags: challenges, change, courage, life

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#3

“I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: astronomy, challenges, comets, comfort-zone, courage, extraordinary, growing, illuminate, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, know-thyself, learning, life-and-living, meteor-showers, meteors, outside-my-element, self-awareness, self-discovery, self-growth, self-worth, shooting-stars, the-universe

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#4

“Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When "I" is replaced by "We", illness becomes wellness.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#5

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door

tags: challenges, inspirational, life

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#6

“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: challenges, happiness, life, problems

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#7

“It seems like such an amazing predicament to me, how one does not become a better person by seeking out in the world those who are lesser than himself and then saying, "I will be better than you because you're not as good as me." You don't become better by looking at others and trying to be better than them. You become a better person by looking at yourself in the mirror, and, seeking to overcome and to overthrow all the flaws within yourself, you overcome the weaker you, the lesser you; you become the better You, the stronger You, the higher You. That's how it goes.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: be-the-change, becoming-better, change-yourself, guidance-quotes, inner-change, inspirational-quotes, know-thyself, self-awareness, self-growth, self-knowledge, self-learning, soul-alchemy, wisdom-quotes

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#8

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

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#9

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung

tags: introspection, psychotherapist, secrets, self-awareness, visions

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#10

“But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

tags: accurate, self-awareness

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#11

“I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

tags: peeta, self-awareness, self-image

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#12

“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: belief-in-self, believe-in-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, life, living, self-awareness, self-belief, self-knowledge, self-love

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#13

“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: human, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, life, life-and-living, living, people, self-awareness, stars, strength, supernova, truth

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#14

“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding

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#15

“The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: badness, fake, genuine, genuineness, goodness, hypocrisy, mermaid, self-acceptance, self-awareness, siren, white-witch, wizard

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#16

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

tags: self-awareness, self-discovery

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#17

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

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#18

“At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: profound, self-awareness, self-discovery

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#19

“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: apocalypse, life, the-road, thoughtful

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#20

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: attitude, fire, hope, inspirational, persistence

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#21

“You have to carry the fire."
I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
Is the fire real? The fire?"
Yes it is."
Where is it? I don't know where it is."
Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#22

“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#23

“Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#24

“Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#25

“Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: altruism, cormac-mccarthy, morality, selfishness, survival, the-road

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#26

“He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#27

“The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: survival

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#28

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: concealment, dark-plans, darkness, stealth

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#29

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: darkness

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#30

“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”
― Shaun Hick

tags: appreciate, appreciate-life, bad-times, cancer, crawling, darkness, good-times, hard-times, holding-on, learning, life, life-lessons, pain, reward, shadows, sickness, struggle, suicide, sun, surviving, test

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