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“I prefer to believe that things happen as they are meant to happen.”

“You can’t change just one part. When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can’t just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose too. Better to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.”

“I think I have to believe life will workout the way it needs to. Everything that happens in the world is just a result of chance and there’s no rhyme or reason to any of it? That’s just too chaotic for me to handle. I’d have to go around questioning every decision I’d ever made, every decision I ever make. If our fate is determined with every decision we make, it’s too exhausting.”

“Sometimes you can’t help but show the things you feel.”

“Life is just a series of breaths both in and out. All I really have to do in this world is breathe in and breathe out, in succession until I die. I can do that.”

“Part of loving someone, part of being the recipient of trust is telling the truth, even when it’s awful.”

“When someone asks you just pick one. You don’t need to find the perfect thing or answer all the time. Just find one that works and go with it.”

“We can’t say what we wouldn’t do in other circumstances. We can’t only know what we would do with the ones we face.”

“I believe God or the universe keeps on the right track.”

“Simple and easy are not the same thing.”

“Maybe home is right in front of a ‘cinnamon roll’ or our favorite things.”

“Life is long and full of an infinite number of decisions. I have to think that the small ones don’t matter, that I’ll end up where I need to end up no matter what. That my fate will find me.”

“Tomorrow is a new day for me.”

“My dreams the ropes the knots, I know what they mean. You don’t tie yourself to something unless you’re scared you might float away.”

“I don’t know how I got so lucky. I didn’t share the rest of the sentence that popped into my head, I don’t know how I got so lucky… to have both of you.”

“Just two people in love with each other, in love with the world. Are you kidding? You are my One True Love. I don’t even think I’m capable of loving anyone else.”

“You don’t savor things that last forever.”

“There is cruelty to survive to fight against but there is gentleness more than anything. Our roots deep and entangled. That is what we hold inside, what we take with us, the way we look after each other.”

“No one can meet your trust if you don’t offer it.”

“All creatures know love.”

“The wolf was always brave.”

“Why the wolves then? Why this as your life? If we’re talking about conservation, about saving this planet, we have to start with the predators. Bc if we can’t save the predators the. We’ve got no chance of saving anything else. Why really? Some people need wildness in their life.”

“You don’t hunt wolves, you hunt their prey.”

“Can’t track wolves, not really. You don’t find them, you leave them be. There is no tracking a wolf. They’re more cleaver than we are. So instead you track its prey.”

“Dad used to say my greatest gift was I could get inside the skin of another human. That I could feel what nobody else could. The body knows a great deal. I have the miraculous ability to know more than one body. Compassion was the most important thing one can learn. If someone hurt us all we needed was empathy and forgiveness would be easy.”

“But on this, I would not be broken. I had a magic power that wasn’t magic. I felt what other people felt and I knew what lived in those touches and how it was mostly sweetness. You didn’t touch sweetly unless you were good.”

“Why did she keep bringing us here to keep witnessing the absolute worst in people? Bc she was trying to break me. To make me admit that she was right. That people for the most part were irredeemable. And that if I didn’t toughen up, I’d become one of the people in those stands telling a judge what had been done to me…”

“But then who said love does not exist in the nature of all things.”

“We are all hard wired for empathy. Although at times it can be exhausting.”

“We are hardwired for empathy. Although it can be exhausting.”

“My brain recreated the sensory experience of all creatures. If I see it, I feel and for just a moment, I am them. We are one. Their pain or pleasure is my own. It can seem like magic.. we are hard wired for empathy. The constant stream of empathy is exhausting.”

“I am unlike most people. I move through life in a different way, with an entirely unique sense of touch. Before I knew its name, I knew this. To make sense of this, it is called a neurological condition, mirror-touch synesthesia” MTS is a rare often genetic neurological condition where individuals feel tactile sensations- such as touch, pressure or pain - on their own body when observing others being touched)

“My father says, ‘Siempre he sabido que no hay montana que no puedas escalate, un past à la vez’ I have always known there is no mountain you cannot climb, one step at a time.”

“The downside of perfectionism is you completely collapse when you get it wrong. To serve aces, you have to be bold. You have to risk hitting the net or going wide. You have to play like you’re not afraid.”