"To enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more."
- Herman Melville, The Whale
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"Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness."
-Carl Jung "What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
-Helen Keller "Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable."
-Anthony De Mello "Rest until you feel like playing; then play until you feel like resting. Period. No guilt. No coercion.
-Martha Beck "Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it."
- Jon Kabat-Zinn "We perceive what we believe rather than what we see."
-Alan Watts "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
- Soren Kierkegaard "What is demanded of an individual is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear their incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms."
-Viktor Frankl "What is called our experience is almost entirely determined by our habits of attention."
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