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Michel de Montaigne
“To enter a breach, conduct an embassy, govern a people, are actions of renown; to reprehend, laugh, sell, pay, love, hate, and gently and justly converse with a man’s own family and with himself; not to relax, not to give a man’s self the lie, is more rare and hard, and less remarkable.”
Montaigne, Essays

Katherine May
“Nature shows that survival is a practice. Sometimes it flourishes---lays on flat, garlands itself in leaves, makes abundant honey---and sometimes it pares back to the very basics of existence in order to keep living. It doesn't do this once, resentfully, assuming that one day it will get things right and everything will smooth out. It winters in cycles, again and again, forever and ever. It attends to this work each and every day. For plants and animals, winter is part of the job. The same is true for humans.”
Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Carmen Maria Machado
“A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”
Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Deena Kastor
“What was a 4-mile tempo run or an 8k race after the suffer-fest of 26.2?”
Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

Meg Jay
“Every problem was at one point a solution”
Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now

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