What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone. ― Eckhart Tolle

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You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone. ― Amit Ray

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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. ― Rachel Carson

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An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me. ― Michel Houellebecq

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Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.

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The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go. ― Shannon L. Alder

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Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained. ― Jonathan Harnisch

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Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's always bothered me. It's heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it's walls and a ceiling and a cell. ― V.E. Schwab

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Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn’t life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. ― Anthony Doerr

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You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life. ― Roy T. Bennett

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