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Buckeye

by Patrick Ryan (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 19, 2026 11:39AM

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“too often I’ve used up precious time preparing for experiences rather than just having them.”
― Joan Anderson, A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

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“Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it’s all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I’ve become afraid to take chances.”
― Joan Anderson, A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers. —Rainer Maria Rilke, LETTER TO A YOUNG POET T”
― Joan Anderson, A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

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