To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to explore what we are, to experience what we are not and to find out what we may become: a free ride until everything melts down into the indistinct and indefinite, while walking up to the ultimate gate of non-existence. ― Erik Pevernagie

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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. _ Vince Lombardi

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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. ― Alan Watts

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So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

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Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. — Henry Ford

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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. — Vince Lombardi

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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.

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Perhaps some detours aren’t detours at all. Perhaps they are actually the path. — Katherine Wolf

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