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“Instincts are older, but thoughts are recent, that's why instincts are more powerful than thoughts - that's why it takes great will power to express a thought through action, while instincts come so easily. However, if we continue practicing our thoughts long enough, eventually the instincts that hold power over us will turn powerless. And this my friend, ought to be the next step of our evolution, and that's why it's no longer merely a matter of natural selection, it's what I hereby dub "sapient selection", that is the process of determining the path of our evolution ourselves.”

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Book:Ain't Enough to Look Human
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“Olhei para a árvore delineada, com quadradinhos para colocar os nomes, já tudo tão esbatido por conta das inúmeras fotocópias. Dezenas, centenas, quem sabe milhares de árvores iguais, como se as florestas não fossem mais do que um conjunto interminável de famílias inteiras, todas iguais e todas felizes. E, lá pelo meio, a minha: um galho caído no chão com duas folhas secas.”

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Book:As Coisas Que Faltam
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“O' melancholy,hectic chill for human soul,herewith dismal presence,any spirit does descent.”

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Book:Halcyon Wings: 'These passions feathers are gathering on a winged vision'
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“I don’t know what more I could have done for you. Maybe I cared too much, maybe I stayed too long, maybe I kept trying when there was nothing left to fix. I replay moments sometimes the things I said, the efforts I made, the silences I accepted. And still, it feels like it was never enough. But maybe that’s the truth about some people, no matter how much you give, they only remember what you couldn’t. So now I don’t question what more I could have done. I remind myself that I gave with honesty, and that should have been enough.”

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Book:Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
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“There was a time when every sudden emotion used to shake me. I used to overthink, try to find reasons, and fix what I didn’t even understand. But now, I have stopped reacting to every wave that comes and goes. Because I have realized, not every feeling has a story behind it, not every emotion needs to be understood. Some emotions just appear for a while and then settle down on their own.”

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Book:Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
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“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And those who come together in the nights and are entwined in rocking delight perform a solemn task and gather sweetness, depth, and strength for the song of some future poet, who will appear in order to say ecstasies that are unsayable.”

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Book:Letters to a Young Poet
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“One of the most difficult things to remember is to remember to remember. We forget that we live in a body with senses and feelings and thoughts and emotions and ideas. We get caught up in rumination and fantasy, isolating us from the world of colors, shapes, sounds, smells, tastes, and sensations constantly bombarding our input sensors. To stop and pay attention to the moment is one way of snapping out of these mindscapes, and is a definition of meditation. This awareness is a process of deepening self-acceptance. Whatever it observes, it embraces. There is nothing unworthy of acceptance.”

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Book:Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
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“Do you control your mind or does it control you? Now pause for a sec. Who’s really in control here... you, or your mind? It’s strange how our thoughts can quietly take the driver’s seat without us even noticing. One minute you’re dreaming big, the next you’re doubting everything . It happens. But maybe it’s time to check in with yourself. Just a little reminder: your mind is powerful, but you’re the one in charge.”

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Author:Zimaam
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“Don't rush to design your face to look beautiful, attractive and charming. Rather, be quicker to decorate your mind to appear as goal-oriented, passion-embedded and action-driven.”

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Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes
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“Some people want you to grow — but only with them. They’ll cheer for your progress as long as it keeps circling back to their world, keeps them at the center of your expanding life. The moment your growth connects you to new people, new places, and new ideas beyond their reach, they grow restless. Not because they hate your growth, but because they fear it might one day carry you somewhere they cannot follow.”

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Author:Sanjeev Himachali
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“This had been happening more and more often: the two of us come upon each other by accident in the early hours of the morning and take solace in each others' company, weathering out the peril of being awake at this time of night, when thoughts that are neatly ordered or justly murdered during the day come loose from their moorings and out of their graves, to tie themselves to each other in new and dangerous ways.”

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Book:The Dream of Perpetual Motion
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“He wouldn't tell me that I always have two options—You can choose how you feel or you you can let your feelings choose you because maybe it is true that those were the options that my husband had, but I knew I didn't have those options and I hated for someone to tell me that I had options I didn't have because I knew that my mind was a small object for sale and my feelings could pick me up and own me and maybe my husband was too expensive for feelings to choose him, to pick him up and have him rung up and scanned and bagged and taken along with those feelings, feelings of I can't really get out of bed today and Husband, would you please not talk to me for the rest of the year. I, too often, had my face smashed against concrete curbs of Ruby, memories of Ruby, the way her face had looked that afternoon as she curled in that chair by the window and the light streaming in and the dark streaming out and what happened so soon after—I went around hostage to those memories, an invisible person following me with a gun barrel to my back.”

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Book:Nobody Is Ever Missing
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“For a moment Carl tried to picture everything in his mind, and then it happened. Somewhere inside of him, where cause and effect were not weighted against each other, and where logic and explanations never challenged consciousness, in that place where thoughts could live freely and played out against each other - right there in that spot, things fell into place, and he understood how it all fitted together”

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Book:The Keeper of Lost Causes
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