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It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.

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I get two things from looking for these pictures: memories of a man I hold very close to my heart, and a realization that I don’t have enough pictures of him
Happy bday @noah.jackson64 I hope it’s the best and miss you mucho by @j_duboi

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“Reality is a curious thing. Truth is not as solid and universal as any of us would like it to be; selfishness guides perception, and perception invites justification. The physical image in the mirror, if not pleasing, can be altered by the mere brush of fingers through hair.

And so it is true that we can manipulate our own reality. We can persuade, even deceive. We can make others view us in dishonest ways. We can hide selfishness with charity, make a craving for acceptance into magnanimity, and amplify our smile to coerce a hesitant lover. The world is illusion, and often delusion, as victors write the histories and the children who die quietly under the stamp of a triumphant army never really existed. The robber baron becomes philanthropist in the final analysis, by bequeathing only that for which he had no more use. The king who sends young men and women to die becomes beneficent with the kiss of a baby. Every problem becomes a problem of perception to those who understand that reality, in reality, is what you make reality to be.

This is the way of the world, but it is not the only way.”
-Drizzt Do’Urden by @j_duboi

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Retrospection. by @j_duboi

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Find someone you can spend hours without talking and say after “that was so much fun” by @j_duboi

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“Keep up your heart, Jocasta. Though I’m proved a slave, thrice slave, and though my mother is thrice slave, you’ll not be shown to be of lowly lineage.”
-“O be persuaded by me, I entreat you, do not do this.”
-“I will not be persuaded to let be the chance of finding out the whole thing clearly.” by @j_duboi

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Come to the LCC for silent auction and get a good deal! taken in Cumberland University by @j_duboi

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“What reason do you find yourself where your stand? What series of events takes you to this spot, and this place? Why do you fret about this guy and that girl when you don’t even know who you are?
I urge you: take a journey to get to know yourself. Sit down at a restaurant by yourself and make small talk. How well do you know the person who holds your hands all day?”
-J.B.D. by @j_duboi

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Happy birthday to one of the most intelligent and capable leaders I’ve ever met, I may not have too many good pictures of you alone, and that’s because your best is around people, laughing, influencing, spreading light in a world of shadows. Love you Jonathan, 19 doesn’t deserve you. Ergo Sum by @j_duboi

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I can’t by @j_duboi

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“The wall that stands ahead of you is only a mirror. What do you see, in the deep reflection? Do you like what you see, my daughter?”
“I hate her.” I spat, grinding my teeth.
“Tell me: why do you hate the girl you see? For I love her so much and see her beauty clear as day.”
“I see only her scars.”
In a sturdy embrace, he spoke to me with a tone so warm, I felt all my pain soothe away.
“You are not a compilation of scars and mistakes. What truly makes you who you are, is who you choose to be when you look in that mirror tomorrow.”
-J.B.D. by @j_duboi

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“What is this mindset, the loser, the downhearted? Why do we sit and complain every day about our strife, with no plan to bring ourselves out of it? Is it our human nature, to think about our struggles and see them as the worst there is? I believe there is truth said here, but humanity is only that-human. To watch them try again and again, even while their own minds try to tear them down, Is a feat to behold. If only their stubborn minds would look at how far they’ve come, and not how little they’ve gone.”
-J.B.D. by @j_duboi

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Oh no#kringeh by @j_duboi

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