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“Each person leaves a legacy--a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole. But do not despair, for despair is a despicable and bourgeois affectation; we must not allow it. As for what happens next, well, as the Cuban poet Regino Pedroso once said, "como forjamos el hierro, forjaremos días nuevos": as we hammer out iron, we shall hammer out new days.”
― John Nichols, The Nirvana Blues

“Listen cousin, the way things are supposed to work out, one day the struggles of all you screwed up little underdogs will forge a permanent rainbow that'll encircle this entire earth, I should live so long.”
― John Treadwell Nichols, The Milagro Beanfield War

“In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.”
― John Nichols

“Life's full of surprises, and they ain't all bad.”
― Barbara Rogan

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
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― Merce Cunningham

“The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life takes place.”
― Barbara De Angelis

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going’
Like a little lost Sputnik?’
I guess so.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart