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    Pema Chödrön
    “Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.”
    ― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
    tags: self-assessment
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    Pema Chödrön
    “We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”
    ― Pema Chödrön
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    Pema Chödrön
    “As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.”
    ― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
    tags: buddhism, uncertainty
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    Pema Chödrön
    “When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)”
    ― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
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    Pema Chödrön
    “Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what's going on, but that there's something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.”
    ― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
    tags: fear, fomo, hope
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    Pema Chödrön
    “I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...It was all about letting go of everything.”
    ― Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
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    Pema Chödrön
    “We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that’s death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn’t have any fresh air. There’s no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience.”
    ― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
    tags: buddhism, inspirational, spirituality
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  • #8
    Gilda Radner
    “I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.”
    ― Gilda Radner
    tags: creativity
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    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
    Delicious Ambiguity.”
    ― Gilda Radner
    tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
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    Mandy Hale
    “Single" means you are brave enough to face the glorious unknown of the unaccompanied journey.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: being-brave, being-single, brave-bravery, embracing-the-unknown, flying-solo, loving-your-life, loving-yourself, not-settling, positive-thinking, single, single-journey, single-life, single-woman, singleness, solo, the-single-woman, the-single-woman-s-journey, unaccompanied, unaccompanied-journey, unknown
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    Audre Lorde
    “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: change, civil-rights, discrimination, equality, fear, homophobia, political, prejudice, racism
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  • #12
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “[T]hink of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: love
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: fiction, money, on-writing, virgin, women, writing
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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: life, love
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: disapproval, humor, wordplay
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    Bill Maher
    “I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I see these pictures of people in Beijing and New Delhi, walking around with masks on, because you can't walk outside your house and breathe? If you can't breathe?…If that's not the cue to make a fundamental change, I don't know what is!”
    ― Bill Maher
    tags: adapt, adaptation, adapting, change, climate-change, complacency, environment, environmentalism, ignorance, pollution, reform, revolution, stupidity, thinking, thought
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
    tags: heart, reason
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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