To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

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

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Healing begins where the wound was made.

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

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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

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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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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

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