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“I want you to be wise for your own sake, Stephen, because at the best life requires great wisdom. I want you to learn to make friends of your books; someday you may need them, because – ’ He hesitated, ‘because you mayn’t find life at all easy, we none of us do, and books are good friends.”
― The Well of Loneliness
― The Well of Loneliness
“You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”
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“I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”
― Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
― Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
“I think adults forget just how much faith teenagers can have in them, just how willing to believe that adults, by virtue of being adults, know absolute truths, or that absolute truths are even knowable.”
― Prep
― Prep
“Silence is always with us. But we do not choose silence, silence chooses us. If you are called to be silent on your journey, recognize the invitation as a great gift. It is a gift to be shared with others. Your relationship to silence is one thing that will define the uniqueness of your journey.”
― Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.
― Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.
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