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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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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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. — Dante Alighieri

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I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star. ― Sojourner Truth

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When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home. – Rumi

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A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it. ― Boethius

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If you want to help... any of us, then you get where you're going and you work hard and you find a way to take care of someone else the way your uncle has taken care of you. ― Rachel Beanland

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Don't ask me why, because I'm not even going to tell you dead. I'm never going to tell you that I love you even if she loves you.

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The journey isn't always perfect, but always worth taking.

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