My solitude is an intoxication: I am, I’m in control, I love myself, and I scorn everything else.
— Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; May 19th, 1927
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Will there really be a morning?
Is there such a thing as day?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?
Has it feet like water-lilies?
Has it feathers like a bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?
Oh, some scholar! Oh, some sailor!
Oh, some wise man from the skies!
Please to tell a little pilgrim
Where the place called morning lies!
― Emily Dickinson, Out of the Morning
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“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
― Pope John XXIII
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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius
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“And God said "Love Your Enemy," and I obeyed him and loved myself.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
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— Warsan Shire, Excuses For Why We Failed At Love
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“Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.”
― Robert E. Lee
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“Don't just be a consumer, be a creator. Somewhere inside you is a masterpiece waiting to be exposed.”
― Raimy Diaz
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- Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from “Cornerstone”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972
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