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“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly…and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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Relevant to my once dream job… I wanted to be a budtender S O. BAD. once I finally got the job I realized my boss and coworkers were shit they wanted to make money sitting on their computers playing games while I did the grunt work communicating with customers setting up web pages writing an employee handbook covering ANY and all shifts that employees called out on.

It all looks beautiful from afar. The grass is greener on the other side because you can’t see or smell any of the manure it takes to make it emerald green.

“Accept this moment as it is”

– Eckhart Tolle (via eearth)

“Stop trying. Take long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. Don’t even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you’ll be flying again.”

– Ursula, Kiki’s Delivery Service 
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“Detach from needing to have things work out a certain way. The Universe is perfect and there are no failures. Give yourself the gift of detaching from your worries and trust that everything is happening”

– Orin (via purplebuddhaproject)

“Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.”

– Ivan Turgenev

https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ivan-turgenev-quotes/#d2179180 (via abandonedandurbex)