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It’s precisely because we want to overcome that pain, that we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive - or at least a partial sense of it. Your quality of experience is based not on standards such as time or ranking, but on finally awakening to an awareness of the fluidity within action itself.
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Posted on October 09, 2012 (♥ 38) via
+ haruki murakami + pain + suffering + depression + despair + overcome + fight + recovery + living + feeling + alive + experience + time + awakening + awareness + sense + action
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I think I have always had the misguided sense that worry and fear serve as an insurance policy of sorts. On a subconscious level, I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen. Well, I am here to say it doesn’t work like that. The very thing you fear the most can still happen anyway. And when it does, you feel that much more cheated for having feared it in the first place.
— Emily Giffin, Baby Proof
Posted on August 16, 2012 (♥ 3)
+ emily giffin + anxiety + fear + worry + panic + subconscious + feel + thinking + notion + cheated + control + sense + misguided
