In the dream I was onstage and there were thousands of you goin’ bananas for me, all laughing and clapping, celebrating your brains out, not because I was somethin’ else up there, but because you were just so happy I was finally starting to get it. Buddy Wakefield
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We are the miracles that God made

To taste the bitter fruit of time

We are precious

And one day our suffering

Will turn into the wonders of the Earth

 Ben Okri
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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. Frederick Buechner (via emotional-algebra)
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? Marcus Aurelius (via emotional-algebra)
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected. Sri Aurobindo
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs. Wally Lamb
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I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools. Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!
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You’ve got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand? Raymond Carver
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The enemy is a very good teacher. the Dalai Lama 
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