The journey of life is more exciting when you unlock your imagination.

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Knowing oneself comes from attending with compassionate curiosity to what is happening within.― Gabor Maté

Brooklyn is the new Manhattan

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I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.  Barry Manilow

“Celebrate your journey of life.”

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“I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.” 

― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? 
Virginia Woolf

“Whatever gets you through the night”

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“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” 

― John Lennon