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“Nothing is permanent. The waves, the light, are in constant transformation. Each wave is new.”
― Ram Dass, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying

“Getting angry doesn't solve anything.”
― Grace Kelly

“I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person.”
― Grace Kelly

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If I’m going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I’m going to live, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart.”
― Ram Dass, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying

“All of this illustrates what might be termed the paradox of limitation, which runs through everything that follows: the more you try to manage your time with the goal of achieving a feeling of total control, and freedom from the inevitable constraints of being human, the more stressful, empty, and frustrating life gets.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.”
― Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language

“Supporters of U.S. English argued that foreign languages are like flotation devices, preventing immigrants from entering American waters unassisted. In reality, they buoy not only the prospects of their speakers—scientists have found that bilinguals enjoy a number of advantages, among them enhanced cognitive skills and lower rates of dementia—but also the ideals of the nation.”
― Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language

“A double standard obtains: while learning a foreign language is considered prestigious, acquiring one naturally is stigmatized.”
― Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language