Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

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we are the ones we have been waiting for

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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

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Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

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