I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. — Ralph Washington Sockman

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Turning your back on the darkness didn’t mean the darkness would turn its back on you. ― Jennifer Donnelly

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Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it. ― Boris Pasternak

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ― Lao Tzu

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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

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Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. Joel Osteen

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Books. Cats. Life is good.

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If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. — Steve Jobs

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. — Nelson Mandela

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