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The Path Itself
I was made for another planet. I mistook my destination.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Perhaps we’ll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.
– George Leonard
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The apocalypse is not coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
— Terrence McKenna
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Pouring ourselves into what we love reduces the time we spend pouring ourselves into what we hate and fear. And that’s how we create a world in which we wish to inhabit.
— Jacob Nordby
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All women speak two languages: the language of men and the language of silent suffering.
Some women speak a third, the language of queens.
— Mohja Kahf
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own
