Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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| — | Rumi |
If you don’t define yourself for yourself, then you will be crushed into others’ fantasies of you and eaten alive.
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| — | Audre Lorde (via exvin) |
I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.
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| — | Augusten Burroughs, Dry (via larmoyante) |
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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| — | Plato (via firebolts) |
