True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

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People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. - Rogers Hornsby

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He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. ― Philip Pullman

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Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world. — Oprah Winfrey

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I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you. ― Becca Fitzpatrick

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Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living. ― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

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The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE. ― Anirban Bose

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Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. ― Parker J. Palmer

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Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ― Carl Sandburg

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