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“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”
― Anne Lamott

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and they come here – having transgressed against what they believed to be right – and expect us to fulfill their desire for pain and retribution. I don’t make them come here… I need no souls. And how can anyone own a soul? No, they belong to themselves. They just hate to have to face up to it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

“I'm fighting to save myself, and save myself, I will." Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ”
― Kazantzakis

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
― Mother Teresa