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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anaïs Nin
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
Anaïs Nin

Samuel Sullivan Cox
“How she felt when he kissed her- like a tub of roses swimming in honey, cologne, nutmeg and blackberries.”
Samuel Sullivan Cox

Henry James
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
Henry James

Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates

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