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I’m grateful to have found a signed copy for $5 at a local vintage shop. What an absolute gem!

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.

“I set this down as a fact, that if all men knew at each side of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.” Blaise Pascal in his Pensees ouch but also, need a good antidote- speak kindly of others.

Suffering is the defining element of the human story.

“And we all rose up from our wonder We will never admit defeat”

*the holidays are too short for all the reading, writing, playing, cycling, and talking that we wanted to get through. (Same, Mr. Lewis)

In life, there is no gift as overlooked or inevitable as failure.

Insanely extreme and insanely inspiring, whoah!

Great courage triumphs over great perils. Catherine the Great

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus

… we are far too easily pleased.

… according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.

Utterly beautiful and it is sweeping me away to India, 1933 every time I open its pages…

The benefits of gratitude are astronomical, and there are no downsides.