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“Our hearts can be our greatest enemies. They can push us toward or to things that disrupt everything we’ve built, things that make us question everything we’ve known prior, and not always to our overall benefit. They can drag us to places we never wanted to be. Maybe your heart feels that a wild business venture is more profitable than finishing your education. Or maybe your heart tells you the man you’ve committed your life to isn’t the man you’re meant to be with. Maybe your heart is right but… what if it isn’t? What if your heart is wrong? There are only three things any of us can actually control; what we think, what we say, and what we do. As such one could argue that our only real responsibility in this life is to garner a deep understanding of ourselves and be responsible for whom we are; what we allow ourselves to become. Your life, your heart and mind, are yours and no one else’s. No one can save you or change you unless you let them unless you chose to be changed. Take responsibility for yourself. So, follow your heart, but maybe let your head step in and have a say once in a while. ------------------------------------------------------------ “Sometimes your mind and your heart want different things, and you know your heart is a liar.”

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“There is certainly some interplay between body and mind. The weaker the body, the more apparent the organic wretchedness or obsolescence of that machine, the freer and the more adventurous one's thinking becomes. It too partakes of that sort of timeless youth which has nothing whatever to do with being in the prime of life. Thinking lives on neither health nor vitality, but on lucidity and pride, and the decaying of the body stimulates that lucidity and that pride. There is nothing worse than this obligation to research, to seek out references and documentation that has taken up residence in the realm of thought and which is the mental and obsessional equivalent of hygiene. In the 'intellectual field', as it is so aptly called, one has to plough the furrow of the concept. It is true that we no longer have a culture of leisure, in which thought and writing were violent and pleasurable. And our leisure now is no more than the charnel-house where dead time is born.”

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