Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation. - Ruth Ozeki - Quotesmemo.com

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Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

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Ruth Ozeki

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

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Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

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Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes. " "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.

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Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it’s the other way around.

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Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

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She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.

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