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"I send my letter into the air, remembering to show gratitude to nature, to bow my head, to have compassion for those who have not a loaf of bread, nor bed to sleep in, the weary vagabonds who yet somehow find ways to experience the exaltation of existence."

"We are on this chessboard Earth, we attempt to make our moves, but at times it seems as if the great hand of a disinterested giant haphazardly sends us on a trajectory of stumbling. What do we do? We step back and seek within ourselves what is needed to be done and serve the best we can."

"A profound if not scarring breach. I understood in that moment that one must discern between a dream and a calling."

"That is something I can do, sit quietly, go elsewhere and not return empty-handed."

"The unsullied memory of unpremeditated gestures of kindness. These are the bread of angels."

"If time was meaningless to God, why must we suffer it?"

Obstacles are our wings.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

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