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“I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.”
― C.S. Lewis
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Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.
– Fred Rogers (via creatingaquietmind)(via teachingliteracy)
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How to Decline a Noun in Latin:
“Would you like a noun?”
“No, thank you.”
(via sleepyquail)
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“I don’t know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it.”
― Henry Miller, Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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ain’t no party like a Gatsby party because a Gatsby party don’t stop until at least two people are dead and everyone is disillusioned with the jazz age as a whole
(via cutselvage)
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I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.
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I have in my own heart a world that is deep, dark and rich. And you, in your heart, have a world that is also deep, dark and rich. So in that sense, even if I’m living in Tokyo and you are living in New York, Timbuktu or Reykjavik, Iceland, it means that we each hold inside ourselves something that is the same in nature or quality, regardless of place. And if we trace that quality to a much deeper place, we will discover that we live in a common world.
– Haruki Murakami (via rabbitinthemoon)(via thymoss)
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You write to find out what you believe.
– Adam Phillips, from last night’s live Writers at Work interview at Live from the NYPL. (via theparisreview)(via teachingliteracy)
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WriteWorld: What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid? →
Anonymous asked: I’ve been planning on writing a story for a while. The only problem is I can’t get motivated to actually write it because when it’s on paper it the writing is so bad it makes me mad and I quit. Do you have any tips on self motivation?
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