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— Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

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My solitude is an intoxication: I am, I’m in control, I love myself, and I scorn everything else.

— Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; May 19th, 1927

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Will there really be a morning?

Is there such a thing as day?

Could I see it from the mountains

If I were as tall as they?

Has it feet like water-lilies?

Has it feathers like a bird?

Is it brought from famous countries

Of which I have never heard?

Oh, some scholar! Oh, some sailor!

Oh, some wise man from the skies!

Please to tell a little pilgrim

Where the place called morning lies!

― Emily Dickinson, Out of the Morning

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“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

― Pope John XXIII

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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

― Marcus Aurelius

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— Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”, Glass, Irony, and God

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“And God said "Love Your Enemy," and I obeyed him and loved myself.”

― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

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— Warsan Shire, Excuses For Why We Failed At Love

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— Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

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“Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.”

― Robert E. Lee

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— Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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Ada Limón interviewed by Lauren LeBlanc

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— Frank Bidart, from Half-light: Collected Poems; “Guilty of Dust”

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“Don't just be a consumer, be a creator. Somewhere inside you is a masterpiece waiting to be exposed.”

― Raimy Diaz

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— Michael Cunningham, The Hours