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Oh, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

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  • "Good friends, good books, and sleepy conscience-- this is the ideal life." (Mark Twain)
  • "A word after a word after a word is power." (Margaret Atwood)
  • "Pain is temporary. Film is forever." (Peter Jackson)
  • "We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas." (Noam Chomsky)
  • "You don’t really understand an antagonist until you understand why he’s a protagonist in his own version of the world." (John Rogers)
  • "When you’re traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road." (William Least Heat-Moon)
  • "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." (Stephen Hawking)
  • "Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving." (Alan Paton)
  • "How slow life is, how violent hope is." (Guillaume Apollinaire)
  • "I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." (Agatha Christie)
  • "We are surrounded by story." (Alice McDermott)
  • "When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough." (William Saroyan)
  • "We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." (D.H. Lawrence)
  • "Humanity lives in its fiction." (Blaise Cendrars)
  • "I am here to live out loud." (Émile Zola)
  • "The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel." (Steve Furtick)
  • "Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them." (Allan Gurganus)
  • "I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks." (Harper Lee)
  • "We are all broken, that's how the light gets in." (Ernest Hemingway)
  • "Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being." (Kevin Kruse)
  • "The things that are the least important for our survival, are the very things that make us human." (Savas Dimopoulos, Particle Fever)
  • "I am large, I contain multitudes." (Walt Whitman)
  • "Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining." (Anne Lamott)
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