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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
― Jack London

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.”
― Sue Grafton, O is for Outlaw

“If everybody in the world got together and put their troubles up for sale on the table, you'd grab your troubles back and run away.”
― Nancy Ring

“...women have been kicked around enough in this world. We don't need to do it to each other, too.”
― Nancy Ring, Walking on Walnuts

“Start over, and start over, and start over.”
― Nancy Ring, Walking on Walnuts

“You learn the old ways, keep what you need, and discard the rest in order to become yourself.”
― Nancy Ring, Walking on Walnuts

“You should never forget where you come from, never forget the struggle, never forget the lives that were lost.”
― Nancy Ring, Walking on Walnuts

“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don't grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot's wife who, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.”
― Rachel Naomi Remen

“Many times when we help we do not really serve. . . . Serving is also different from fixing. One of the pioneers of the Human Potential Movement, Abraham Maslow, said, "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.' Seeing yourself as a fixer may cause you to see brokenness everywhere, to sit in judgment of life itself. When we fix others, we may not see their hidden wholeness or trust the integrity of the life in them. Fixers trust their own expertise. When we serve, we see the unborn wholeness in others; we collaborate with it and strengthen it. Others may then be able to see their wholeness for themselves for the first time.”
― Rachel Remen

“Sand is a way of life for an oyster. If you are soft and tender and must live on the sandy floor of the ocean, making pearls becomes a necessity if you are to live well.”
― Rachel Naomi Remen, My Grandfather's Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging

“...my whole life seemed to be lived on the doorstep. Never fully in or out, never feeling as though I belonged anywhere.”
― Evie Woods