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Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis. ↗

— Patrick Ness

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The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem. ↗

— Maurice Makalu

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Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others. ↗

— José Luís Peixoto

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Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#life #writing #inspirational

Auschwitz was a dark epiphany, providing us with a terrible vision of what life is like when all sense of the sacred is lost and the human being--whoever he or she may be--is no longer revered as an inviolable mystery. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart. ↗

— Lew Wallace

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Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.-- ↗

— Robert Murray McCheyne

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Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch. ↗

— Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly

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We have tested and tasted too much, lover- Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder. ↗

— Patrick Kavanagh

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