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“Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
― John Holmes

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
― Maya Angelou