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- Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
- Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?
- Time erases both the best and the worst of us.
- I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
- Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
- Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes…
- God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.
- If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.
- We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
- It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are?…
- Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and…
- just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
- Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put…
- Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people…
- We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to…
- Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with…
- I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between…
- believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup.…
- Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd…
- We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this -…
- You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights…
- When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by…
- Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.
- I think there is a Paris inside us all.
- Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.
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