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“How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy

“You can't kill me. Even if you could, you can't bring yourself to do it. You'll hesitate. Again.”
― Spirit Bound
― Spirit Bound

“I can only begin the process of saving myself when I surrender to the reality that I can’t. And what greater place to surrender that reality than to an infant who surrendered Himself to me so that I might surrender myself to Him.”
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“God’s genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.”
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“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”
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“There are misfortunes that make you spring up and rush to save yourself, but, there are others that are too bad for this, for they leave nought to do. Then a stillness falls on the soul, like the stillness of a rabbit when the stoat looks hotly upon it and it knows that there is no more to be done.”
― Precious Bane
― Precious Bane

“Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from several
pieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to my
own governing method, ignorance.”
― The Complete Essays
pieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to my
own governing method, ignorance.”
― The Complete Essays

“To ‘cancel� someone is a manifestation of our inability to defend our position, which is compounded by the fear that the one that we’re ‘cancelling� can actually defend theirs.”
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“At Yale, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd grown up in Newark. In Newark, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd gone to Yale.”
― The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
― The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
“The desire to be nice to everyone and please everyone and the inability to firmly say no is what destroys believers most of all”
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“...and everything is an incurable sickness.
The indolence of feeling, the frustration of never knowing how to do anything, the inability to take action...”
― The Book of Disquiet
The indolence of feeling, the frustration of never knowing how to do anything, the inability to take action...”
― The Book of Disquiet

“If it’s dependent upon me, it will likely land on you. If it’s dependent on God, you will likely land on it.”
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“Indecisiveness or the inability to act only invites disaster or undesirable results over the long run.”
― Life Is a Dance
― Life Is a Dance

“The quality of your destiny is governed by your action or inability to act, by your ability to dream or not, by your desires or lack of desires.”
― Life's Impressions
― Life's Impressions

“Altering the perception of the 'reality' is a denial of both the reality and my inability to alter it.”
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“The oddity of it all is that I can do absolutely nothing, yet I am capable of doing absolutely everything. Such a perplexing dichotomy can only be explained by whether I have invited God into my circumstances, or I neglected to mail the invitation.”
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“The power of men is subject to the weakness of men which means that such power will never be powerful.”
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“Once I had no dreams, yet another there was,
a Heavenly wife, that to make mine, I’d pause,
yet after she left, without saying goodbye,
I can’t be her catcher, of dreams, or in rye�”
― На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
a Heavenly wife, that to make mine, I’d pause,
yet after she left, without saying goodbye,
I can’t be her catcher, of dreams, or in rye�”
― На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“The human race is capable of great things. But the greatest possible achievement that yet eludes humanity is the one that it may never achieve. And that is the willingness to bow before its inability to save itself. For if it fails to achieve this single thing, it is certain to ‘achieve� the destruction of everything it thought it had achieved.”
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