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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.”
Henri Nouwen
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
Don Delillo
“When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
Oscar Wilde
“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
Lucretius
“Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
Anatole France
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.”
Tom Watson
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
Socrates
“There's a Genius in all of us.”
Albert Einstein
“The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.”
Bob Riley
