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• god
• time
• old

Okay. The story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh air-until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore. "My God, this is terrible," the wave says. "Look what's going to happen to me!" Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave, looking grim, and it says to him, "Why do you look so sad?"The first wave says, "You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us waves are... Morrie Schwartz

• pride
• grace
• true

How easy it is to hate oneself! True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace would be to love oneself in all simplicity—as one would love any one of those who themselves have suffered and loved in Christ. Georges Bernanos

• passion
• evil
• acknowledgement

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. David Herbert Lawrence

• life
• thinking
• believe

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski

• path
• divinity
• bloated

Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• fly
• attention
• bee

just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can Doug Coupland

• hurt
• about myself
• feeling

It erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me. I feel completely invincible. I feel like everyone else on that stage is invincible and we're capable of anything. There's no stopping us. Gerard Way

• goals
• evening
• doubt

What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death. Henry Miller

• happy
• up
• catching up

If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us. Richard Carlson

• life
• understanding
• die

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies John Cleese

• sleep
• faith
• hand

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw. The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die. We shall not sleep, though poppies grow. In Flanders fields. John McCrae

• family
• pain
• look

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family. Stephen King

• diamond
• trust
• space

It really is a shame that through our sad neglect of wonders, hopefulness, and trust we allowed so much clutter and debris to build up in the space that once connected us to Diamond Green. Michael Chabon

• blue
• storm
• aware

Below us somewhere in the gelatinous phantasmagoria of churning blue, the whales wouldn't be much aware of the storm. Diane Ackerman

• friends
• some good
• waste

There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is... Edward Abbey