You contain a self-defined center, but you as a soul-holding, breathing person are not the center. And we should all be so lucky to both give up this ego-driven placement in the world as well as feel a sense of freedom—to be relieved of
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“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“the right one does not
stand in your way
they make space for you
to step forward”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
stand in your way
they make space for you
to step forward”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
“Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
“...but we are AMERICANS, Kilgore, and not Chinamen. We Americans require symbols which are richly colored and three-dimensional and juicy. Most of all, we hunger for symbols which have not been poisoned by great sins out nation has committed, such as slavery and genocide and criminal neglect, or by tinhorn commercial greed and cunning.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“Commit yourself to a passion that moves you.”
― Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
― Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
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