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On Value and Worth

Posted by Sachi ⋅ December 23, 2012 ⋅ Leave a comment

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. ~ Cynthia Lord, Rules Feels refreshing to read a children’s book once in a while. 🙂

On Fighting

Posted by Sachi ⋅ November 6, 2012 ⋅ 2 Comments

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep running ~ Anonymous This was randomly mentioned by our lecturer during biochemistry class today. 🙂

On Fate

Posted by Sachi ⋅ October 31, 2012 ⋅ Leave a comment

But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. ~ John Green, The Fault in Our Stars Because there really are times when things go wrong no matter how much you … Continue reading →

On Heaven

Posted by Sachi ⋅ October 30, 2012 ⋅ Leave a comment

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to. ~ John Green, Looking for Alaska … Continue reading →

On Being Paranoid

Posted by Sachi ⋅ January 15, 2012 ⋅ Leave a comment

Happiness like this is frightening… They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you. ~ Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner Ironic. The past weeks have been so happy. I was sure something bad was going to happen. Crying myself to sleep in the next days… or weeks…

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