I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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Books. Cats. Life is good.

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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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