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"...vampires, like all predators, are most charming when cornered." Soulless

"'Everybody lies', said Wednesday." ~American Gods

"A reality is just what we tell each other it is. Sane and insane could easily change places if the insane were to become the majority." ~in the Mouth of Madness

"Boys are now...[up to] 10x more likely [than girls] to be diagnosed with a serious emotional disorder...and between 4-6x more likely to committ suicide." from Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood, by William Pollack, Ph.D (research from Harvard Medical School)For the boys in our lives: let's nurture, cherish, and listen to them more. They don't need to hold it in and "be tough" all alone.

"Every human relationship has a tangible core, and we can think about it, analyze it all we want, it is unchangeable." ~Marai

"Hope" is the thing with feathers-that perches in the soul-and sings the tune without words-and never stops at all ~Dickinson

"I love you so much it's time to go to sleep." Space Ghost ep 86 w Bjork

"If you don't like it-change it; if you can't change it-leave. It's your life." The Ballad of Jack and Rose (I think this applies much to thoughts)

"If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree." ~Doc Watson

"It's only when we feel pain, or the prospect of it, that we start to make distinctions between right and wrong." ~McGrath

"Keep calm and carry a wand." ~Orenjinotaiyou

"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruitWisdom is not putting it in a Fruit Salad" ~ the Internet, via Yoga for Cynics

"Memory creates the past...we are actively constructing our own past right now every bit as much as we create our own future." Hardcore Zen

"Mustn't cage her...wild things die in cages..." The Owl Killers

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." -- Clarence Budington Kelland

"One can only dominate another human soul if one knows, understands, and with the utmost tact despises the person on is subjugating." ~Marai

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter."Martin Luther King Jr. via Ageing Abundently

"The fears and longings in their deepest most unspoken hearts are always constant." -Seven Sorcerers

"The idea of the self is the most potent intoxicant of all."~ Buddist saying

"There is nothing more artistic than to love people." Vincent Van Gogh

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are" Nin

"What is to be is not out of our hands. Moment by moment we make our own lives. It is the old order, the old way, the old cruelty that denies us this right. It is in the cauldron of the very next minute that we decide our fate-not yesterday, not some tomorrow, but always, forever, NOW...How else but in the very next minute are we to be free?" ~Mesmer

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(((bawls))) Thank you, Puddin'!! xoxox

ALWAYS