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“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best.”
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“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That’s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.”
― Animal Dreams
― Animal Dreams
“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“The day will be what you make it, so rise like the sun, and burn.”
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