In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

…depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebi — Jan Wong, Out of the Blue

Internalizing problem-solving techniques enhances the neural activity that allows you to more easily hear the whispers o — Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

Study skills really aren't the point. Learning is about one's relationship with oneself and one's ability to exert the e — Linda B. Nilson, Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students' self-Awareness and Learning Skills

A popular myth is that learning is largely a matter of motivation. Increasingly, the key to effective learning in the in — Kathryn Alesandrini, Survive Information Overload: The 7 Best Ways to Manage Your Workload by Seeing the Big Picture

You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment o — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed. — Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands — Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

$How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like a glass cage. It is a hoop to be fractured by a tiny jar. There is a spark t — Virginia Woolf, The Waves$

Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is s — Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world — Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

If you shouldn’t blame yourself for minor things you did or didn’t do when someone dies, how can you start giving yourse — Mark Rogerson, This Moonless Sky

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