The only journey is the one within. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

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Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

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Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever._ Peter Hagerty

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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa

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A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. ― Marilyn Monroe

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Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well. ― Germany Kent

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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. – Marcel Proust

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Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons. — Harville Hendrix

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