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"Start and restart as many times as you have to." - Unknown
"If you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a higher fence." - Unknown
"Beware of the tiny gods frightened men create." - Hafiz
"I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad." - W. Heath Robinson
"I wake to sleep,
and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go."
- Theodore Roethke
"If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty."
- Japanese proverb
"I exist as I am, that is enough."
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"Where I had learned the idea of absence, I was beginning to learn the idea
of trace. There is always something left behind. That is the essential
paradox. Even abandonment gives us memory." - Robert Kroetsch
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get full value of a joy you
must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain
"Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense; but if I were stronger I
would not have used such a weapon." - Kahlil Gibran Sand and Foam