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

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

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

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

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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