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“What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.”
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“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”
― Canada
― Canada
“Everybody should have someone whose belief in them is unwavering, unconditional, always.”
― Cartwheel
― Cartwheel
“This was the elasticity and permanence of parental love; everything vile about your children was to some degree something vile about yourself, and disowning your child for their failings could only compound your own.”
― Cartwheel
― Cartwheel
“Jivan: You think when you have love that love is easy to find, that everyone has it. It's not true. It's very hard to find.
Nedra: I haven't been looking for it.
Jivan: It's like a tree...It takes a long time to grow. It has roots very deep, and these roots stretch out a long way, farther than you know. You can't cut it, just like that.”
― Light Years
Nedra: I haven't been looking for it.
Jivan: It's like a tree...It takes a long time to grow. It has roots very deep, and these roots stretch out a long way, farther than you know. You can't cut it, just like that.”
― Light Years
Take II Book Club
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— last activity Sep 25, 2011 12:11PM
A book club for recreational reading and gathering for good food to discuss such reading.
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