“Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing.”
— Alain de Botton, Essays in Love
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“Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.”
— Alain de Botton, Essays in Love
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“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Let me tell you a truth… No matter what choice you make, it doesn’t define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices and then turn around and walk a bad path. No choice we make lasts our whole life. If there’s ever a choice you’ve made that you no longer agree with, you can make another choice”
— Jonathan Maberry, Dust and Decay
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Alfred Hitchcock was not even in the neighborhood of fucking aroudn.
THAT’S MY FUCKING DUDE RIGHT THERE!
My big ambition is to not have a big ambition. I know it’s kind of strange but my goal in life is to practice trying to be present on a daily basis. I think, as people, our consciousness is spread out. We analyse the past, we worry about the future, and it’s all fuelled by fear and pain and all these negative things. Even when it’s good it’s going to be not good in a minute. Then you’re chasing it again. It’s all rooted in time and I think my big ambition is to really practice the ability to quiet my brain a little and just learn how to enjoy the moment.
