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The Dark Forest

“Fairy tales do not start, nor do they end, in the dark forest. That son of a gun always shows up smack-dab in the middle of a story. But it will all work out. Now it may not work out how you think it will, or how you hope it does, but believe me, it will all work out. Exactly as it’s supposed to. Our job is to have zero expectations and to just let go.” TED LASSO

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Real Female Power

“Our fear of birth is as elemental as our fear of death. Our society’s medicalized resistance to natural death is mirrored in our medicalized avoidance of natural birth. We treat birth as a dramatic medical emergency because we lack the patience and faith in nature to allow for a natural and individual birth process. We are afraid of the dangers but we are also afraid of the mystery. Our society mistrusts what comes out of women as much as what goes in. It teaches us that we must be augmented in order to function, dishonouring the fact that real female power is nothing less than the power to risk death to bring forth new life.”

Rachel Webster

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All We Can Do

“I know now that for all our careful planning, no matter how our birth experience turns out, we cannot prepare ourselves for anything or protect ourselves from disappointment and heartache. We cannot anticipate the sheer joy our children will bring, or the way our hearts can open and break because of them. All we can do is choose the people we want beside us through whatever life has in store, take their hands and hold on tight.”

Ann Hood

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Be Brave As Well

“The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender and because of that, the warrior can be brave as well. Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.”

Chögyam Trungpa

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Mask

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any largescale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”

Jim Morrison

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Float Like a Butterfly

“People sometimes ask me if I’m ever afraid to speak out. My answer is no. Fear is a prison and I have been imprisoned all my life. All my life I have been afraid of the consequences of being myself. All my life I have been afraid of my truth. Whether it be the truth of my nappy hair, the truth of my ghettoness, or the truth of my intelligence, I feared it would make others uncomfortable. I spent 24 years locked in a box labeled ‘The American Dream.’ I spent 24 years dying, burdened by the truth of my own identity. To be afraid now would be a slap in the face. It is an honor to get to be me. I will never succumb to fear. I have to choose this life, even if it kills me, even if I end up penniless. Because the alternative is simply unbearable.”

Muhammad Ali

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A Beautiful Place

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

Kurt Vonnegut

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There is a Little Darkness

“There is a little darkness, a little risk, in any real life. Homeopathic doses of murkiness must be taken if people are to find themselves. Traces of that dose are revealed whenever someone grows up and leaves home, or reinvents themselves. Whenever people fall in love, there is always a touch of manipulation, a little imperfection. A life entirely without shadows cannot be real.”

Jaron Lanier

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The Artist

“The artist appeals to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives, to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain, to the subtle invincible conviction of solidarity that joins together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, a solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear. Art binds us to each other, it binds together all humanity, the dead to the living, and the living to those that impend.​”

Joseph Conrad

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A Tighter Hold

Memory

“It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something small to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then, who knows? Maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold.”

Kazuo Ishiguro

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