| | quote of the week archive |
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| | When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
—John Muir |
| | To understand something, you have to pay attention. You have to love.
—J. Krisnamurti |
| | I stayed with my plan: See the ball, hit the ball.
—Yorvit Torrealba |
| | To know patience is to come home to the wide-open ears and eyes of unbiased presence.
—Laura Simms |
| | We live in a terrible and terrifying world, but it's very hard to look away.
—Gary Shteyngart |
| | We are all connected to the world by a thousand hidden strings that we don't see.
—Merle Shain |
| | I am not ashamed to say I want to change the world.
—Barbara Kingsolver |
| | Irony is a diminishing act — the incongruity between what’s expected and what occurs makes us smile at the distance. But there are some events that occur that are so big that they almost imply an obligation not to diminish it by clever comparisons.
—Roger Rosenblatt |
| | Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
—Oscar Wilde |
| | Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper.
— Goethe |
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