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I believe with Jung that each of us is โ€œmodern man in search of a soul.โ€ โ€” James Hillman

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"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too." ~ Ernest Hemingway ๐ŸŒนJuly 21, 1899 โ€“ July 2, 1961 ๐Ÿฅ€
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"I would like to paint the way a bird sings." ~ Claude Monet
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"When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life." ~ Andrei Tarkovsky
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"The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard." ~ Henry David Thoreau ๐ŸŒนJuly 12, 1817 โ€“ May 6, 1862 ๐Ÿฅ€
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โ€œBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.โ€ โ€” Rainier Maria Rilke
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"Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman." John Berger
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"Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure." ~ Frida Kahlo
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"I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart." โ€” Vincent Van Gogh ๐Ÿ’Ž #Botd 1853
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"Donโ€™t ever kid yourself about loving some one...whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being...you are lucky even if you die tomorrow." ~ Ernest Hemingway
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"Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows." ~ Henry David Thoreau
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"Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you." ~ Henry David Thoreau
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โ€œI have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.โ€ โ€• Virginia Woolf
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"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." ~ Henry David Thoreau
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"It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all." ~ Sylvia Plath
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"The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity." ~ Glenn Gould
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"Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try." ~ Ernest Hemingway
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"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
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"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place." ~ Kurt Vonnegut #Botd
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"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed โ€ฆ yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you." ~ Frida Kahlo
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"Iโ€™d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains." โ€” John Muir ๐ŸŒฒ #Botd 1838
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"To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed." ~ Henry David Thoreau
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No man is an island, Entire of itself; Every man is a piece of the continent,ย  A part of the mainโ€ฆ Any man's death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. โ€”John Donne
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โ€œAbout a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.โ€ โ€• Carl Gustav Jung
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โ€œPeople who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.โ€ โ€• Doris Lessing
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"Dissent without action is consent." ~ Henry David Thoreau
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"The day you die is just like any other, only shorter." ~ Samuel Beckett #Dotd , 1989
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"I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come." ~ Cat Stevens
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"Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors." ~ Ernest Hemingway
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"... I do not have time for things that have no soul." ~ Charles Bukowski ๐Ÿ’Ž #BOTD 1920
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"The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost." ~ Henry David Thoreau Walden Pond
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"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." ~ George Orwell ๐ŸŒน25 June 1903 โ€“ 21 January 1950 ๐Ÿฅ€ His work is characterised by lucid prose,biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism,and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
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"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." ~ Carl Sagan ๐Ÿ’Ž #BOTD 1934
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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Donโ€™t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand. โ€” R.M. Rilke
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โ€œThe most common form of despair is not being who you are.โ€ โ€• Sรธren Kierkegaard
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Almost everything that matters is hard, and everything mattersโ€ฆ Rainer Maria Rilke
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โ€œTo burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.โ€ โ€• Federico Garcรญa Lorca
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โ€œWe look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.โ€ โ€• Louise Gluck Have you listened to Quotomania yet? Check it out here: ~ @holdengraber
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"Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live." ~ Adrienne Rich
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"You're on earth. There's no cure for that." โ€” Samuel Beckett ๐Ÿ’Ž #Botd 1906
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Thoreau's famous quotation, near his cabin site at Walden Pond
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โ€œโ€ฆ did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is no time?โ€โ€ฆ โ€œIt is this what you mean, isnโ€™t it: that the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at onceโ€ฆ
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โ€œDon't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.โ€ โ€• Franz Kafka ๐Ÿ’Ž #Botd 1883 Thanks to @holdengraber
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โ€œI donโ€™t write because thereโ€™s an audience. I write because there is literature.โ€ โ€• Susan Sontag Have you listened to Quotomania yet? Check it out here: ~ @holdengraber
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"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer loveโ€ฆ" ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky #Botd
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"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." ~ Charles Bukowski
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"Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people." ~ Michel Foucault
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We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art - we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones. Anais Nin
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"I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace." ~ Federico Garcia Lorca (5 June 1898 โ€“ 19 August 1936)
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"Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy." ~ Franz Schubert ๐Ÿ’Ž #Botd 1797 Schubert by Gustav Klimt
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โ€œUnexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.โ€ โ€• Saul Bellow ๐Ÿ’Ž #Botd 1915
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"I tell my piano the things I used to tell you." ~ Frederic Chopin ๐Ÿ’Ž #Botd 1810
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โ€œYou're on Earth. There's no cure for that.โ€ โ€• Samuel Beckett
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โ€œI needed my mistakes in their order to get me hereโ€ ~ W.S. Merwin Thanks to @holdengraber
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โ€œTo do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.โ€ โ€• T.S. Eliot
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โ€œFor last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice.โ€ โ€” T.S. Eliot
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โ€œThe world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.โ€ โ€• W.B. Yeats
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โ€œWhat labels me, negates me.โ€ โ€• Soren Kierkegaard
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โ€œand when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?โ€ โ€• Charles Bukowski Thanks to @Maraaaks
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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life." ~ Virginia Woolf ๐Ÿ’Ž #Botd 1882
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John Keats died in Rome on 23 February 1821. He was 25 years old. His body was buried in the city's Protestant Cemetery. His last request was to be placed under a tombstone bearing no name or date, only the words, "Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water."
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โ€œWhen people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.โ€ โ€• Ernest Hemingway
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Hand of the Mysteries/ The Hand of the Philosopher
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"Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable." ~ Emmanuel Levinas
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"It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty." ~ Leo Tolstoy #Botd , in 1828
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โ€œThinking is difficult, thatโ€™s why most people judge.โ€ โ€• C.G. Jung
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I have been told that one of Kafka's nieces, who survived the war, once said: "Uncle Franz was too optimistic." โ€” Carlo Ginzburg, interview by Maria Pallares-Burke, The New History Have you listened to Quotomania yet? Check it out here: ~ @holdengraber
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โ€œTime, like the sea, unties all knots.โ€ โ€• Iris Murdoch
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"I utter what you would not dare think" ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
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โ€œThey lived and laughed and loved and left.โ€ โ€• James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
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โ€œAll truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.โ€ โ€• Friedrich Nietzsche
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โ€œIf the path before you is clear, youโ€™re probably on someone elseโ€™s.โ€ โ€• Carl Jung
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"When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults." ~ Hermann Hesse ๐ŸŒน 2 July 1877 โ€“ 9 August 1962 ๐Ÿฅ€
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โ€œThey lived and laughed and loved and left.โ€ โ€• James Joyce
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โ€œI'll be your mirror Reflect what you are, in case you don't know I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset The light on your door to show that you're homeโ€ โ€” Lou Reed Have you listened to Quotomania yet? Check it out here: ~ @holdengraber
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โ€œI believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.โ€ โ€• Umberto Eco Have you listened to Quotomania yet? Check it out here: ~ @holdengraber
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โ€œAnd once the storm is over, you wonโ€™t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. โ€ฆ When you come out of the storm, you wonโ€™t be the same person who walked in. Thatโ€™s what this stormโ€™s all about.โ€ โ€• Haruki Murakami ~ @holdengraber
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"My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration." ~ Nikola Tesla ๐ŸŒน 10 July 1856 โ€“ 7 January 1943 ๐Ÿฅ€
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โ€œEach of us has his own rhythm of suffering.โ€ โ€• Roland Barthes
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Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.
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"I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be." ~ Ernest Hemingway
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โ€œWe have lost touch with nature rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it. This will in time be over and then what? What have we learned? I am 83 years old, I will die. The cause of death is birth.โ€ โ€” David Hockney ~ @holdengraber
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"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." ~ Gustav Mahler ๐ŸŒน7 July 1860 โ€“ 18 May 1911 ๐Ÿฅ€
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"Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change." ~ Frida Kahlo #Botd , in 1907
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โ€œWhat is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.โ€ โ€• Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.โ€ โ€” Samuel Beckett
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โ€œThinking is difficult, thatโ€™s why most people judge.โ€ โ€• C.G. Jung Have you listened to Quotomania yet? Check it out here: ~ @holdengraber
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"To be successful in writing, use short sentences." ~ Ernest Hemingway #Botd , in 1899
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โ€œAlways be a poet, even in prose.โ€ โ€• Charles Baudelaire
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"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination." ~ Sylvia Plath
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โ€œYet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.โ€ โ€• Czeslaw Milosz
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โ€œThe cure for anything is salt water โ€” sweat, tears, or the sea.โ€ โ€• Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) Have you listened to Quotomania yet? Check it out here: ~ @holdengraber
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"All I can do is be me, whoever that is." ~ Bob Dylan ๐Ÿ’Ž #Botd 1941
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"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it." ~ Emily Dickinson
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"All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors." โ€” Jacques Lacan ๐Ÿ’Ž #Botd 1901
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Simone Weil
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โ€œThe most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.โ€ โ€• Voltaire Have you listened to Quotomania yet? Check it out here: ~ @holdengraber
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Max Ernst, Naissance d'une galaxie, 1969
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โ€œWe are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to see this when we travel to another country, and are able to catch a glimpse of our own country with foreign eyes.โ€ โ€• Doris Lessing
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"In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart." ~ Blaise Pascal #Botd , in 1623
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"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." ~ Simone Weil ๐Ÿ’Ž #Botd 1909
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