“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”
More from Robin Hobb on Life
“I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.”
“...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.”
“Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”
“Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.”
“I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.”
“But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.”
“Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.”
“Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.”
“Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.”
“It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.”
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Henry Miller
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Lord Byron
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Cormac McCarthy
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Virginia Woolf
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Joseph Campbell
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Margaret Atwood
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