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Certainly, the system contains fights: birds against worms, snails against lettuce, and spiders against flies. But these fights are contained in the sense that they do not get out of hand, that no one species is the permanent victor. Man
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“Thank you,” he whispered as I moved the pillows. No problem, I said. “Mitch. What are you thinking?” I paused before answering. Okay, I said, I’m wondering how you don’t envy younger, healthy people.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie
― Tuesdays with Morrie
“We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“It reminds us that as ordinary as we might be, we can, if we choose, take the harder road, walk forth bravely under the indifferent stars. We can hazard the ravages of chance. We can choose to endure what seems unendurable, and thereby open up the possibility of prevailing. We can awaken to the world as it is, and, seeing it with eyes wide open, we can nevertheless embrace hope rather than despair.”
― The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
― The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
― Winter
― Winter
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