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“Memories are microscopic. Tiny particles that swarm together and apart. Little people, Edison called them. Entities.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“It's what we're all striving for in this life - to understand our purpose with certainty and to have faith in the workings of this world. "Listen, Jose Luis," she said leaning closer. "That's our purpose as beings - to question, to learn, to improve ourselves spiritually, incrementally through our years. We're at best only intelligent animals, the fortunate creatures given the gift of reason... the gift of insight into God's grand design. Isn't it ungrateful to ignore it when the Lord enters our lives and touches us with his love and direction? At a chosen point in every person's life, He makes himself known in His most delicate of ways. But still, at the end of it all, it's up to us to recognize and appreciate it, no?”
― Richard Lord Seely, Toward the Sun

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lou Holtz

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Across the parking lot, children were frolicking in the surf, patting their palms on the surface of the sea...”
― Richard Lord Seely

“A raven landed on the wall next to her and croaked its throaty caws twice. The surprise of it would have sent her screaming away before, but now Caliana stroked its black crown with her fractured fingers before the raven's wingbeats dissipated in the breezes.”
― Richard Lord Seely, Toward the Sun