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Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering on. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

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It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats. ↗

— Adam Levin

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I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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Money isn't everything, but it's right up there with oxygen. ↗

— Rita Davenport

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If a man fights with truth, in time, he will be victorious. If he fights with lies, after he is exposed; in time, he will be left alone. ↗

— Tonny K. Brown

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Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

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Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with. ↗

— Alison Larkin

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Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles. ↗

— Freya Stark

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—Eso es todo. Ese día mi abuelo me explicó que nosotros somos distintos de los animales, que solo hacen lo que su naturaleza les dicta. En cambio, nosotros somos libres. Es el mayor don que hemos recibido. Gracias a la libertad podemos convertirnos en algo distinto de lo que somos. La libertad nos permite soñar y los sueños son la sangre de nuestra vida, aunque a veces cuestan algún azote y un largo viaje. «Jamás renuncies a tus sueños. Nunca tengas miedo de soñar, por mucho que los demás se rían de ti», eso me dijo mi abuelo, «pues si lo haces renunciarías a ser tú mismo». Aún recuerdo los ojos brillantes con que subrayó sus palabras. ↗

— Alessandro D'Avenia

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Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit. ↗

— Eric Liddell

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