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"We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love."

Tennessee Williams

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“"Remove the log from your own eye before you remove the splinter from others," says nothing of never removing the splinter from someone else's eye and endlessly removing a log that is no longer there.”

NIM, Dog Star Days

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“I advise remaining young at heart but wise in action. Being an adult doesn't mean being boring, but it does mean taking on responsibility for what you can and leveraging it to your advantage for the benefit of yourself and those around you. It means challenging yourself and delighting in the toil. It means finding ways to have fun despite what cards are dealt. It means thinking of the future, of how you can positively impact those who have yet to come. It means thinking before you bite.”

NIM, Dog Star Days

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“Action has a way of multiplying itself: the tree bears fruit, which in turn grows more trees.”

NIM, Dog Star Days

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“I do not love the bright sword for its sbarpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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“In the end, you were a part of the sky on loan to a body. A part of the sea that awoke to thought. A part of the Earth who borrowed a name.”

Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You

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Don't make a cult of suffering.

Live in the Now (or at least the Soon).

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“I turn destruction into creation over and over again.”

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

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“I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, turn my living soul to stone, then teach myself to live again.”

Anna Akhmatova, Requiem

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“Got tired of being a faceless daughter, so I became a poet. Got tired of being a rotting altar, so I became a poet.”

Tatiana Luboviski Acosta, The Easy Body

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“Your name does to me what prayer does to a heart.”

Kavya Dixit

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“Done with crying a river, so today I decide to be one.”

Kavya Dixit

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“Anxiety is the universe telling you it's time to do something, to create something, anything.”

Dylan O'Sullivan

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Do not unsheath me without reason. Do not wield me without valor.

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"The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between,”

Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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“Are you fond of roses? It feels to me: as if all the roses in the world bloom for you and by means of you.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé

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“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”

Bran Stoker, Dracula