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You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.
— Ruth E. Renkl (via rainydaysandblankets)
“Alphabetic writing can engage the human senses only to the extent that those senses sever, at least provisionally, their spontaneous participation with the animate earth. To begin to read, alphabetically, is thus already to be dis-placed, cut off from the sensory nourishment of a more-than-human field of forms. It is also, however, to feel the still-lingering savor of that nourishment, and so to yearn, to hope, that such contact and conviviality may someday return.”
David Abrams
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
— Ernest Hemingway (via soul-surfer)
“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” Charles Bukowski
