wisdom quotes

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the surface of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

- Annie Dillard

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Imperfection is not our personal problem, it is a natural part of existing,

- Tara Brach

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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

- Marge Piercy

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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

- Audre Lorde

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

- Henri-Frederic Amiel

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Life is the sum of all your choices.

- Albert Camus

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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.

- Adrienne Rich

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I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

- Alice Longworth Roosevelt

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The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

- Ruth Fulton Benedict

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[O]ur lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune into them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is going on.

- Jane Wagner

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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

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