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Inside Quotes by Augusten Burroughs
- God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn’t press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew…
- The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference…
- Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And…
- I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on…
- I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other…
- You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.
- Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something…
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- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender… — Roseanne Barr
- I know what its like to want to die; how it hurts to smile; how you try to fit in but you… — Superman
- Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all;… — Rajneesh
- Even the strongest people dying inside, when it comes to love. — Nishan Panwar
- When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to… — James Belushi