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Gene Apling

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“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

tags: arts, life, music, poetry

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“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”
― Shaun Hick

tags: appreciate, appreciate-life, bad-times, cancer, crawling, darkness, good-times, hard-times, holding-on, learning, life, life-lessons, pain, reward, shadows, sickness, struggle, suicide, sun, surviving, test

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“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”
― Plato

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“Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged by Damnation