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“I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.” quote by Loung Ung — Download Open image

“I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.”

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To all the survivors out there, I want them to know that we are stronger and more resilient than we ever knew. We survived, that should be enough but it isn't. We must work hard to become whole again, to fill our soul with love and inspiration, to live the life that was intended for us before it was disrupted…

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I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this…

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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

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I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

Marianne Williamson

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Orson Scott Card

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If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

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I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot…

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