“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
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““How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied—or, for that matter, awarded — because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.””
— Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer (via naturaekos)
““Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.””
— Albert Einstein
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via amortizing)
“ - When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there.
- But it is still there.
- Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth.
- Sooner or later, that debt is paid. “
Iconic scene.
All About the Benjamins (2002)
Daily reminder!