Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.
– Eknath Easwaran
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- I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism – one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded. – Criss Jami
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- When you’ve understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can’t understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom. – Jack Kerouac
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- Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don’t get up for a third. – Brandon Sanderson
- Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path. – George Herbert
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- We’re victors, remember? We’re the ones who can survive anything they throw at us – Suzanne Collins
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- You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. – Amy Bloom
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- It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn. – Chuck Klosterman
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- In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss. – Richard Flanagan
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- Remember: worry, fear, and negative thoughts produce a yield from those thoughts that have to be inevitably reaped after they have been sown! – Stephen Richards
- It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first. – Martha N Beck
- Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? – Orson Scott Card
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