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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
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mourning
grief
suffering
reality
personal-experience
others
experience
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C.S. Lewis |
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Onen i-estel edain, u-chebin estel anim
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hope
inspirational
others
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Onen i-estel edain, u-chebin estel anim. (I gave Hope to the Dunedain, I have kept none for myself.) (Gilraen's linnod)
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inspirational
others
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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inspirational
designer
others
self
fashion
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Karl Lagerfeld |
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You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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others
privacy
secrets
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Don DeLillo |
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A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful life force, a bunch of long, undulating legs, and it's heading somewhere, moving through the darkness of the ocean... It takes on all kinds of different shapes--sometimes it's 'the nation,' and sometimes it's 'the law,' and sometimes it takes on shapes that are more difficult and dangerous than that. You can try cutting off its legs, but they just keep growing back. Nobody can kill it. It's too strong, and it lives too far down in the ocean. Nobody knows where its heart is. What I felt then was a deep terror. And a kind of hopelessness, a feeling that I could never run away from this thing, no matter how far I went. And this creature, this thing doesn't give a damn that I'm me or you're you. In its presence, all human beings lose their names and their faces. We all turn into signs, into numbers.
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others
society
state
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Haruki Murakami |
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The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
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self-doubt
others
value
uncertainty
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Alain de Botton |
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[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.
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ourselves
viewpoints
oneness
others
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Alain de Botton |
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It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
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trust
others
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T.H. White |
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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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influence
satisfaction
others
priorities
minds
soul
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Alain de Botton |
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...if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.
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money
family
more
earning
stewardship
others
needs
selfish
enough
scripture
materialism
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Randy Alcorn |
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lys `ly 'n 'f`l m yf`lh lakhrwn , wlknny 'stTy` 'n 'f`l m ynsbny
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others
novel
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Nicholas Sparks |
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In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did? .. give up days and weeks of our lives, addicted to someone else's drama.
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ill
live
life
others
envy
quality
drama
dying
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Mitch Albom |
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We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.
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compassion
life
landry
pearl-in-the-mist
v-c-andrews
ourselves
others
worrying
human-beings
thoughtful
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V.C. Andrews |
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I am not bothered by the silence. For all the noise I make with my friends, I am still not comfortable talking about my feelings in front of others - especially not classmates.
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classmates
silence
feelings
friends
others
uncomfortable
talk
noise
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Mitch Albom |