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#1

“Whatever gets you through the night”
― John Lennon

tags: acceptance, beatles, perseverance

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#2

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

tags: acceptance, hate, imagination

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#3

“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”
― Tony Schwartz

tags: acceptance, certainty, curiosity, growing, learning, letting-go, openness, paradox, uncertainty

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#4

“Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.”
― Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety

tags: acceptance, understanding

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#5

“It's a poem about moths. But it's also a poem about psychopaths.
I get it copied. And stick it in a frame.

And now it glowers redoubtably above my desk:an entomological keepsake of the horizons of existence.

And the brutal, star-crossed wisdom of those who seek them out.

i was talking to a moth
the other evening
he was trying to break into
an electric bulb
and fry himself on the wires

why do you fellows
pull this stunt i asked him
because it is the conventional
thing for moths or why
if that had been an uncovered
candle instead of an electric
light bulb you would
now be a small unsightly cinder
have you no sense

plenty of it he answered
but at times we get tired
of using it
we get bored with routine
and crave beauty
and excitement
fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while
so we wad all our life up
into one little roll
and then we shoot the roll
that is what life is for
it is better to be part of beauty
our attitude toward life
is come easy go easy
we are like human beings
used to be before they became
too civilized to enjoy themselves

and before i could argue him
out of his philosophy
he went and immolated himself
on a patent cigar lighter
i do not agree with him
myself i would rather have
half the happiness and twice
the longevity

but at the same time i wish
there was something i wanted
as badly as he wanted to fry himself”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

tags: burn, fire, life, moth, psychopath

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#6

“Being young is like
being a moth, or alive I
bet-possibly:
I am burning, if I am learning any-
thing these days, it is that

The flames you keep touching when you're young,
you keep right ahead on touching when you're older.”
― Will Walton, I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain

tags: alive, burning, fire, flames, i-felt-a-funeral-in-my-brain, learning, moth, older, touching, young

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#7

“You invoke a new future
when you envision your past
in the light of your present.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

tags: awakening, awareness, change, creation, destiny, enlightenment, faith, fate, forgiveness, free-will, freedom, future, guilt, healing, hope, imagination, imagine, inspiration, invocation, know-thyself, past-and-future, past-and-present, power, present, present-moment, self-awareness, shame, spiritual, time, transformation, vision

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#8

“Goddess of immemorable cloudy veils, reveal your magickal powers so we may re-attune our psyches to your multi-dimensional realities and thereby draw your power to heal this worldly habitat and return it to the provocative Sisterhood of Your Milky Way.”
― Lady Svetlana

tags: goddess, invocation, magick, moon, occult, occultism, sisterhood, witchcraft, witches

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#9

“When you start to notice the mystical, the mystical will start to notice you.”
― Dacha Avelin

tags: metaphysics, mysticism, occult, occultism, spells, spirituality, witch, witchcraft

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#10

“Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: astral, astral-projection, chakra, cosmic, death, dream, dreaming, dreamy, ethereal, etheric, extrasensory-perception, flesh, fly, flying, hypnotism, innermind, intuition, magic, mantra, meditation, medium, michael-bassey-johnson, mind, mystic, mystical, obe, occult, occultism, otherworld, out-of-body, paranormal, psychic, silver-cord, soul-travel, superhuman, supernatural, telepathic, telepathy, trance, transcendence, unworldly

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#11

“The sensation that allows you to experience the physical reality, when detached from the physical body allows you to realize life beyond the physical reality.”
― Roshan Sharma

tags: astral, detachment, reality, sensation, spiritual-experience, subtle

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#12

“Wake up, my guest /
You have slept long /
In the house of my ribs, /
The House of my heart /
Wake up now, /
See through my eyes, /
Walk with my feet, /
Yush, my old friend”
― Greg Keyes, The Blackgod

tags: awaken, summoning

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#13

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
― Anthony G. Oettinger

tags: humor, misattributed-to-groucho-marx, time

6196 likes

#14

“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: afternoon, december, flewn, june, late, night, soon, time

4185 likes

#15

“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
― Oprah Winfrey

tags: dreams, life, time

3374 likes

#16

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: idleness, time, wasting-time

1546 likes

#17

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
― Alan Watts

tags: process, time

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#18

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
― Susan Sontag

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#19

“Red", I write "is the color of life. It's blood, passion, rage. It's menstrual flow and after birth. Beginnings and violent end. Red is the color of love. Beating hearts and hungry lips. Roses, Valentines, cherries. Red is the color of shame. Crimson cheeks and spilled blood. Broken hearts, opened veins. A burning desire to return to white.”
― Mary Hogan, Pretty Face

tags: mary-hogan, pretty-face, red

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#20

“The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: arrogance, cockiness, forehead, narcissism, paint, pride, red, selfishness, shine, spirit, target

52 likes

#21

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-stereotypes

1013 likes

#22

“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: exploitation, poetry, poets

208 likes

#23

“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: rebellion

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#24

“Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: heaven, hell, nietzsche

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#25

“If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#26

“Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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#27

“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.”
― Friedich Nietzsche

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#28

“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

tags: action, illusion, knowledge

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#29

“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

tags: perception

157 likes

#30

“To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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