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psych-facts
Don’t try to be better than someone else, be better than yourself.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway (via larmoyante)
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I am here as an individual, free to travel across the starry oceans to wherever I please. And I choose to stand on your ground. I am here to stand up for myself and for the right to love.
Crystiniana, Celestial Dynasty. (full extract here)
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… just what
is missing in us, that needs so many worlds?
Alan Williamson, from “Sleep,” Ploughshares (Fall 2011)
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I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: True Stories (via felicefawn)
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I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.
Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing (via larmoyante)
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I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.
Nikos Kazantzakis (via owls-love-tea)
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"In brief, I am more dissatisfied with myself than with the world."
Franz Kafka, from Diaries (via fleurstains)
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Just a few notes on a night that marks another stage in growing up: this time there was no pain, no passion, no hurt. Inside me there was a core of self-possession.
Sylvia Plath (via larmoyante)
I was made of delicate substance, mysterious time.
Perhaps the source is within me.
Perhaps the days emerge,
fatal and illusory,
from my shadow.
Jorge Luis Borges, from “Heraclitus”, translated by Thomas Frick (via violentwavesofemotion)
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A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.
Anthony Anaxagorou (via lifeiseazye)