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Every Summer After

by Carley Fortune (Goodreads Author)

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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (One World Essentials) by Trevor Noah

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The hood was strangely comforting, but comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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