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“As Henry David Thoreau, one of the great explorers of his time, reminded himself in his journal, “It matters not where or how far you travel—the farther commonly the worse—but how much alive you are.” Two”
― Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

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“As one of my early A.A. sponsors used to say, I didn’t hang out with lower companions—I had become one.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous

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“If you and I spend our seasons together we would find that our dreams and fantasies of happily-ever-after-love have holes in them through which the wind of karma blows: our yellow flag shakes. And I would like you to look ahead and see what I know: the wind will replace our pretty ideas with something brighter: life.”
― Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You

tags: dreams, fantasies, karma, love

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“Then he kissed her again. And kissed her and kissed her, until her heartbeat was a song and her veins pulsed with honey and fire, and his arms were around her and he was not letting go. He new what she was and he was not letting go.

She had never understood, until now, what it would be like to kiss somebody who was not trying to use or master her. Who cleanly and simply /delighted/ in her.”
― rosamund hodge, Crimson Bound

tags: first-kiss, love, stay

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“Lord, make me a channel of thy peace—that where there is hatred, I may bring love—that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness—that where there is discord, I may bring harmony—that where there is error, I may bring truth—that where there is doubt, I may bring faith—that where there is despair, I may bring hope—that where there are shadows, I may bring light—that where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord,”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

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