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For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.

– Vladimir Nabokov –

Angels exist; sometimes they’re your best friend and other times they are someone you met a single time or know only by name, but they are angels just the same.

– J.D. Stroube –

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it …

– J.D. Stroube –

In the land of sour grapes, the half-eaten apple is the queen

– Katerina Stoykova Klemer –

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

– Alain de Botton –

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

– Libba Bray –