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“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

“Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.”
― Eve Ensler, I Am an Emotional Creature

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time