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“Well, it’s like this, Edward. There is a cosmic certainty to things. An order. There are places, like Earth, where time passes. People live, then die. And there are places like this, outside of time, where existence goes on forever.”

Book:One More Life to Live

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“All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly--not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things the outer limits would suffice.”

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Book:The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Source: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

“One desire, my friends, one: to kill yourself. You must desire this. You must feel that a voyage of discovery is more important than all the little trips which the normal consumer self wants to buy.”

Self Discovery

Book:The Dice Man

Source: The Dice Man

“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.”

Self Discovery

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“But what I want to know is, is there a you independent of circumstances? Is there a way-down-deep me who is an actual, real person, the same person if she has money or not, the same if she goes to this school or that school? Or am I only a set of circumstances? -Aza”

Self Discovery

Book:Turtles All the Way Down

Source: Turtles All the Way Down

“How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.”

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Book:Stolen Apples

Source: Stolen Apples

“...the issue isn't so much what I want to be, but whether or not I can be it without hurting everyone else in the process.”

Self Discovery Expectation

Book:Tweet Cute

Source: Tweet Cute

“Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“It was so quiet, I could hear my own breathing, loud in my ears. Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.”

Self Discovery Self Denial

Book:What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“If you think you’re good people, and if you are, how would you know? Is it something you always knew? Or was it something you found? Some people are naturally good at it […]. Is it worth trying to be something you’re not? Just because it’s right?”

Self Discovery Be Yourself Right And Wrong Being Good

Book:Koko Be Good

Source: Koko Be Good

“Heartache had been a part of her life so long it had become as familiar as the color of her hair or the slight curve in her spine. Sometimes it was the lens through which she viewed her world and sometimes it was the blindfold she wore so she didn't see. But it was always there. (p117)”

Self Discovery Heartache

Book:The Four Winds

Source: The Four Winds

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