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“People can't have everything they want. You should know that; it's a rule; people can have some of the things they want, but they can't have everything.”
― Edward Albee, The American Dream & The Zoo Story

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“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
― May Sarton

tags: gardening, gardening-as-therapy, grace, nature, patience, slowing-down

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“About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.”
― Edna Ferber, So Big

tags: mistakes

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“Nothing is more comforting than the weaknesses of persons obviously superior to oneself.”
― Isaiah Berlin

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“Allowables

I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this
Was only a small spider
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn't
And she scared me
And I smashed her

I don't think
I'm allowed

To kill something

Because I am

Frightened.”
― Nikki Giovanni, Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid

tags: being-frightened, death, fear, killing, life, poem, poetry, spiders

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