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   17 December 2009

   “I’ve always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else’s.”

   Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer

   book humor human

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   23 October 2009

   “Have you ever noticed how transparent people are when you really look at them?”

   Walter Huston, Dodsworth

   movie human

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   15 September 2009

   “It’s really human of you to listen to all my bullshit.”

   Molly Ringwald, Sixteen Candles

   movie human empathy

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   04 January 2009

   “Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we’re thankful for the things we’ll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.”

   Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy

   tv life gratitude human

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   30 December 2008

   “But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration.”

   Herman Hesse, 1919. (via applebloggingjeans)

   wonder human