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  • To Be Nobody But Yourself

    Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot… Read more

  • There is no word for the opposite of loneliness:

    There is no word for the opposite of loneliness: “It’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together.”… Read more

  • If you dance with somebody,

    If you dance with somebody, they’re going to step on your feet. They’re going to go left when you expect them to go right. It’s just the way it is. Dr. Sue Johnson Psychologist Read more

  • The Price We Pay

    We need to keep paying attention to politics however much we would prefer to be doing something else. Vigilance is the price we pay for our freedom. Benjamin Constant Read more

  • Our quiet domesticity can be interrupted at any time.

    Agatha Christie warned us that our quiet domesticity can be interrupted at any time, but she also held out hope that it might return, perhaps in the epilogue. By Jamie Fisher The New York Times… Read more

  • The struggle of man against power

    The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera Read more

  • To cut out

    A great piece of art is composed not just of what is in the final piece, but equally important, what is not. It is the discipline to discard what does not fit — to cut… Read more

  • Learn from the mistakes of others.

    Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt Read more

  • Wiñay Wayne, Forever Young

    May God bless you and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always do for others And let others do for you May you build a ladder to the stars And… Read more

  • One thing that I dread

    There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings. Fyodor Dostoevsky Read more