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Don’t be afraid …
“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness,… Continue reading
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All, everything…
All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love. — Leo Tolstoy Continue reading
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from “And the Walls Come Crumbling Down”
“Coming home to someone is many things. It is a literal action, an abstract idea, a physical feeling. It is more than the sound of the key turning in the door and the voice that calls from the porch. It is a choice, a promise, a declaration. It is a return, not as a person… Continue reading
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from “The Long-Legged House”
The approach of a man’s life out of the past is history, and the approach of time out of the future is mystery. Their meeting is the present, and it is consciousness, the only time life is alive. The endless wonder of this meeting is what causes the mind, in its inward liberty of a… Continue reading
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from “Milk and Honey”
what i miss most is how you loved me. but what i didn’t know. was how you loved me had so much to do with the person i was. it was a reflection of everything i gave to you coming back to me. how did i not see that. how. did i sit here soaking… Continue reading
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What a privilege …
What a privilege it was to matter to you. – Beau Taplin Continue reading
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I have learned …
I have learned that people will stay, leave, save, and destroy you, but by far the most dangerous thing they can ever do is come back. – Beau Taplin Continue reading
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The role of the artist …
The role of the artist is to not look away. – Akira Kurosawa Continue reading
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The hardest thing …
The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. It’s so easy to make it complex. What’s important is leading an examined life. – Yvon Chouinard Continue reading
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I think we ought to read …
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? …we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death… Continue reading
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