i wonder if i’ve ever been that stranger that another stranger thinks about for a while after we pass each other by
“Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
— Ayn Rand
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“Discard your misperceptions. Stop being jerked like a puppet. Limit yourself to the present.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The cure for love is still in most cases that ancient radical medicine: love in return.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak
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“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Each separate being in the universe returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity. If you don’t realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow.”
Lao Tzu
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
— Albert Camus
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Say it, know it, lift up the voices of those who need to be heard.
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
— Albert Camus
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there are ways to be beautiful that don’t involve your appearance
“Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.”
— Democritus
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“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”
— William Blake
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“The picture was taken before she was famous,” Michals remembers. “I had simply been told she was super talented and big things were in the wings. We went up town and ran around the Marquis theatre and had a lot of fun. I asked her to dance and she was as joyful as she seems in the photograph, just radiant.”
meryl streep photographed by duane michals, 1975.