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It will hurt

and hurt
and hurt

And then one day

It won't


We live in a world where we hide to make love,
while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
- John Lennon

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To leave the world a little better than you found it.
That's the best a man can ever do.
- Paul Auster


"Kids are like sail boats: they look good on a sunny day and in the distance, but require a lot of maintenance."

Chris Isaak


@torunn said
It will hurt

and hurt
and hurt

And then one day

It won't
Tell that to my arthritis!

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There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths.
It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

~ Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947)

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“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore


“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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Only a silly person has to commit all errors themselves.

Lao-Tse (or Laozi)


The most dangerous phrase in the language is, ‘We’ve always done it this way'.

Grace Hopper

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Contrary to the brain, the stomach informs us, if it is empty.

(attributed to Einstein, but I doubt that)

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“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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"My left is weakened. My right is broken. The situation is excellent. I'm on the attack."
Field Communiqué to Headquarters, Marshal Foch (French Commander, 1851-1929)
"Where talent counts once, effort counts double"

Angela Duckworth. Professor of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania. From her book:
Grit - the Power of Passion and Perserverance"

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These new changes are really messing me up badly. Suddenly today, everything on my site has been altered and I can't find a way to revert to my old view. I think I'm being forced to leave RHP after being happily on the site for 17 straight years.

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“At the end of the day, tell yourself gently: 'I love you, you did the best you could today, and even if you didn't accomplish all you had planned, I love you anyway.'”
Anonymous

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