“We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.”
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“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
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“We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.”
― By the Shores of Silver Lake
― By the Shores of Silver Lake
“in this life it’s best to keep the then and the now and the what’s-to-be as close together in your thoughts as you can. It’s when you let gaps creep in, when you separate out the intervals and dwell on them, that you can’t bear the sorrow.”
― The All of It
― The All of It
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