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Originally published in Chicken Soup for the Soul (2017) In a way, my grandmother Victoria knew me better than myself. She recalls when I was around seven years old and wanted to be a pastor. A lifelong Pentecostal, my grandmother fully supported this career move. She even bought me a tiny blue suit so I could […]

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“Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.”
― Phyllis Theroux, The Journal Keeper: A Memoir

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“Man's character is his fate.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967