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“For me it was important to be alone; solitude was a prerequisite to being openly and joyfully susceptible and responsive to the world of leaves, light, birdsong, flowers, flowing water.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“I'm not so worried anymore, because now I know nobody knows what they are doing in life, and nobody knows what to do when bad things happen, to themselves or to other people. We make it up as we go, and sometimes we are big and generous and sometimes we are small and petty. We say the wrong things, we obsess over all the ways we got it wrong and all the ways that other people did, too. The only thing I know for sure it that it is okay not to know everything, to try and fail and to sometimes suck at life, as long as you try to get better.”
― Nora McInerny Purmort, It's Okay to Laugh

“Marry a person who loves you a lot, but more important, loves you best, because quality beats quantity any day.”
― Nora McInerny Purmort, It's Okay to Laugh

“It's all too much and not enough at the same time.”
― Jack Kerouac