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Charles Yu has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.…
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This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to…
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Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce…
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I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask…
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Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook,…
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I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I…
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It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.
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Sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth, I'll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized…
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For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of…
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Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.
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I don't miss him anymore. Most of the time, anyway. I want to. I wish I could but unfortunately, it's true: time…
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I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a…
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True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect.
— Naoki Higashida
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To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out,…
— Etel Adnan
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How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!
— Charles Lamb
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When all my endeavor is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavor is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone…
— Nicholas of Cusa
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The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.
— Maria Montessori
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The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the…
— Maria Montessori
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Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices
— Shana Alexander
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
— Alain de Botton
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With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable…
— Beverly Engel
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It’s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better…
— Chris Hedges
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I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and…
— Lee Friedlander
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