Helen Dunn
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t. If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll
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“The world is dangerous and we will not survive it. But there is this. Impermanent as it may be.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“An infinite horizon is like a strong current in the sea; it drags you to unknown places before you even notice it!”
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“If you watch a man spend fifty years of his life on his knees in the darkness digging coal, my father could have told me, then you calibrate your blessings by a different set of metrics than most people.”
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
“Even when nothing seemed to be going our way, he held fast to the belief that something absolutely marvelous lay hidden within the folds of each disaster, and that if we kept our wits and maintained our senses of humor, we would sooner or later be permitted to partake in the magic.”
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
“But here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
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