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A coincidence was like a ripple on the surface of a pond, perturbed by a force below that we can’t yet understand. If something looks like a coincidence, it’s only because the limits of human cognition prevent us from seeing the full picture.

Jessica Pereira, from the article “The Jessica Simulation:Love and loss in the age of A.I.“ in the San Francisco Chronicle, July 23 2021

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Saint Augustine by way of Nathan Fillion

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race

Ray Kroc

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

Proverbs 27:17

The impermanence of this floating world I feel over and over It is hardest to be the one left behind

Otagaki Rengetsu, Zen nun and poet (1791-1875)

#grief and loss #rengetsu

Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back

Marcus Aurelius

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

- Serbian proverb

This too shall pass

Persian proverb...from the story of a king who commanded that his wise men create something that when he was too happy, it would make him sad, and when he was too sad, it would make him happy. They gave him a golden ring that had the phrase "this too shall pass" written on it, and he said it was perfect.

I postpone death by living...by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing

Anais Nin

Death is lighter than a feather, but duty is heavier than a mountain

from The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

This is the power of determination and having trust in yourself. If you believe you belong somewhere...then you go there, study it, and find a place in it

from a Men's Health article on Charlie Hunnam by Anna Maltby

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude

Thomas Jefferson

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake

Our successes never teach us anything. They pat you on the back and send you on your way. But our failures we turn upside down and inside out and give us everything we ever had

Gene Kelly as told by Mandy Patinkin

Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun

Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind

Dr. Seuss

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