“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”— Plato
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“I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn’t forget, I’m alive, I know I’m alive, I mustn’t forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (Green Town, #1)
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“You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.”— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless (via thoughtkick)
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““I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” - Agatha Christie”—
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“If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.”— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”— Abraham Lincoln (via thoughtkick)
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“Le soleil a comme un regard. Mais un regard qui regarderait le soleil.
Le regard est un cône qui se renverse sur le soleil.
Et tout l'air est comme une musique figée, mais une vaste, profonde musique, bien maçonnée et secrète, et pleine de ramifications congelées”
Artaud, L'ombilic des limbes
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“ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ”
— Mahatma Ghandi (via resqectable)
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“…in this single bed, between these garish sheets, I will find a map as likely as any treasure hunt. I will explore you and mine you and you will redraw me according to your will. We shall cross one another’s boundaries and make ourselves one nation. Scoop me in your hands for I am good soil. Eat of me and let me be sweet.”— Jeanette Winterson, from “Written on the Body”
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