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quixotic
exceedingly idealistic; foolishly impractical, especially in the pursuit of ideals; marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action
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The universe is cold, and cruel, and violent—but only if you choose to look at it that way. For every act of aggression there are a thousand acts of kindness. For every hateful word, a million declarations of love. The good always outweighs the bad.
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Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort.
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The fact that you’re struggling doesn’t make you a burden. It doesn’t make you unlovable or undesirable or undeserving of care. It doesn’t make you too much or too sensitive or too needy. It makes you human. Everyone struggles.
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But I suppose... people yearn to trust others. And to be trusted in return. Maybe that’s all anyone really needs.
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Despite everything, it's still you.
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i'm literally immobilized by fear and anxiety. i have no clue what i want, yet i'm mad at myself for not moving fast enough. like towards what? for who? what would happen if i was just content but no one knew and i told no one? would that still count? i think it would.
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Do you not see? He was right to hesitate. To doubt. The unwavering blade cares not whom it serves nor who it cuts.
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You are not lost. You are here. Stop abandoning yourself. Stop repeating this myth about love and success that will land in your lap or evade you forever. Build a humble, flawed life from the rubble, and cherish that.
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That’s the problem with putting others first; you’ve taught them you come second.
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We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
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I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.
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agape
selfless love; to extend love to all people; universal loving kindness
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Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.
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Do not fear difficulty. Hard ground makes stronger roots.
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The dawn doth brighten the sky, and shineth o’er this nascent age of hope. And though the clouds gather to mute this sun’s rising glory, I would walk far with thee under its gentle glow.
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We all rely on other people. It’s hard to keep going without someone loving you, supporting you, pushing you onward.
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For he is accustomed to rely upon himself alone and to cut himself off from the whole; he has trained himself not to believe in the help of others, in men and in humanity, and only trembles for fear he should lose his money and the privileges that he has won for himself.
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Hey, if you’re gonna hold onto dreams or ideals, ya better swing for the fences.
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If you ask me, this is gonna require the power of love to fix.
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"To change the world, one needs something far more important than callousness."
"What is that?"
"Love. The only one who can change the world... Is the one who never abandons love, no matter how painful things become, all the way to the end."
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Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.
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Forget about what everyone else thinks for a second and figure out what it is you're really after here.
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it hurts our hands to fight - never to hold.