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This is the business of dying well. The sorting out of what’s worth the fight and what’s not. The peeling off of old resentments. The laying down of arms. It’s a time of reckoning, of balancing our books and paying those we owe. But when
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“All I am saying is relax. Listen to the wind, feel the water. See where life’s breeze wants to take you. Look, if God wants to give you a bigger oar or two, he will. He has plenty. There are times, however, when he’s trying to blow us one way and we’re paddling like crazy the other. Occasionally we just need to stop and be grateful.”
― The Orphan Keeper
― The Orphan Keeper
“DROPPING KEYS The small woman Builds cages for everyone She Knows. While the sage, Who has to duck her head When the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the Beautiful Rowdy Prisoners. —HAFIZ”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“Vasudhaiva kutumbakam,’ which means ‘The whole world is a family.”
― The Orphan Keeper
― The Orphan Keeper
“You too might find that your women friends are your truest friends, your sisters are the keepers of your memories and hopes for the future.”
― Three Sisters, Three Queens
― Three Sisters, Three Queens
“There was no good reason to deny innocent people a safe place to live.”
― The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
― The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
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