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Kathy

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Kathy’s Quotes

“Only the harshest personal experiences open our eyes to the immaculate possibilities and the splendor of our world.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: adversity, adversity-quotes, hurdles, life-challenges, life-test, overcoming-adversity, overcoming-challenges-quotes, overcoming-obstacles, suffering

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“The family coil so twisted, tight and loose
anyone trying to leave
has to strafe the field
burn the premises down”
― Adrienne Rich, Your Native Land, Your Life

tags: challenges, dysfunction, dysfunctional-families, family, poem, poetry

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“They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

tags: darkness, happiness, omelas, unknown, walk-away

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“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, integrity, reputation

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“Then in anger divine Aphrodite addressed her: “Do not provoke me, wicked girl, lest I drop you in anger, and hate you as much as I now terribly love you, and devise painful hostilities, and you are caught in the middle of both, Trojans and Danaans, and are destroyed by an evil fate.” So she spoke; and Helen born of Zeus was frightened; and”
― Homer, The Iliad

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