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I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
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by Stephen Fry. (via painfulvalley)
(Source: unicornsareblue, via painfulvalley)
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Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
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by Indira Gandhi (via ponceau)
(Source: the-random-quotes, via etornal)
