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Nature does not know extinction. It knows only change. Metamorphosis. It knows that when life is snuffed out and the soul vacates the body, it must, by definition, go somewhere. And if you don’t believe in God or a god or in heaven and hell, then where do souls go?
Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase
You’re not the astronaut you used to be,
Ain’t it shame that you couldn’t keep the starlight in your eyes?
You’re not the hero that you used to be,
Fading away until you’re falling out the sky
Grieves, Astronauts
Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are simply toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren’t inherently bad people, but they aren’t the right people for us
Daniell Koepke (via purplebuddhaquotes)
How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.
R. Arnold (via purplebuddhaquotes)
The genius of this nation is not the least compared with that of the Prussians, Austrians, or French. You say to your soldier ‘Do this’ and he doeth it; but I am obliged to say, 'This is the reason why you ought to do that,’ and then he does it.
Baron von Steuben when explaining the difference between the American Colonies’ soldiers and other soldiers he’d known.
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
It is not enough to be intelligent; you must also have the right character.
Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (via philosophybits)
The education of our children is never out of my mind… . I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
John Adams
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